Trying Quotes

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

When I say right, it just has to be well thought out. I feel like I'm on a pretty good roll, and it can't be me trying to force what might be perceived to be next.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.

I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

Hard rain falls in every season. Sometimes it can beat you down; you have to try to learn how to take sustenance from it to grow.

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake.

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us.