Trying Quotes

I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

I'm trying to do something that I have kind've a clue how to do.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Let's go to the food court and try some food.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

If I have pizza or Taco Bell one day, I'll have home-cooked meals the next. I try to listen to what my body craves.

I try to take life as it comes, and just hope it keeps coming.

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

Honestly, I just try to drink lots of water and get a decent amount of sleep!

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

Each season I try to incorporate something new that corresponds to the timing and the trends in everyday fashion.

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.

It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.