Trying Quotes

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but I have to indulge every now and then!

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

I do Pilates and yoga and try to eat healthy.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.