Trying Quotes

I'm not trying to force something, but I do enjoy working behind the scenes and I do enjoy bringing all of the ingredients to the kitchen so that we can make the movie.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.

Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

I try to only worry about things I have control over.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Nothing is lost forever. Trying keeps the hope alive.

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.