Phil Silvers Quotes

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • Style
  • Makeup

• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Band

• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Together
  • Years
  • Sum

• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Door

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Hollywood

• That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Trying
  • Learn
  • Diet

• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Trying
  • Next
  • Dave

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

  

  Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Breakfast

• There are two things you need for a jolly good hymn. The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper. The second-and perhaps even more important-is a good tune … with a simple popular melody.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Words

• It was a game where our rebounds and defense really failed us and eventually, I had to think about an offensive unit that could do some things to try and catch up. Kobe obviously wasn't right tonight, but this is the second time Blake has scored big against us in critical situations.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Music
  • Introducing

• Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

  

  Phil Silvers
  • Trying