Trying Quotes

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?

I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

From SpongeBob to Finding Nemo ... I'm still trying to decide which one I like more.

You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

And I try to piece the puzzle of the universe, Split an eight of shrooms just so I could see the universe !

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

I try to be as intentional as possible.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

I am just a player trying to do what Im told.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

I think we are trying to improve for next week. Period. I do not think anybody is thinking about anything else.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.