Trying Quotes

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

I express myself very strongly it's groveling, I'm trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Age is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them.

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?'

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

I'm pretty vocal about my healthy lifestyle choices. I do try to eat organic, high protein and gluten free.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.