Trying Quotes

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.

I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again.

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn't even trying.

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

I feel very responsible for my brother, and I try and protect him every chance I get.

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.