Trying Quotes

Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Hopefully what you do as an actor is strong enough and has enough of an impact that people get what you're trying to communicate.

Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.

The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.