Trying Quotes

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

Folks trying to plan their personal fiscal '15 are at a loss. They can't do a budget because they don't know what their health insurance costs will be.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

What brings you onto my property?" Rhev said, cradling his mug with both hands trying to absorb its warmth. Got a problem" I can't fix your personality, sorry

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.