Trying Quotes

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.

I'm just vibrant. I try to bring that to everything I do.

Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.