Trying Quotes

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.

I like people who try to do big things.

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

I'm SO trying to give up meat.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world.

If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions.

We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

Just trying to get to know what director Bill Condon wanted. He's a great director and knows exactly what he wants. He knew every lyric to every song; knew where a handicap was.

I love interacting the fans and try to answer questions that people have. And I love when people are excited about projects, so. I am just a tweet away.

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

I try to keep an even keel.

I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.

I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

Fear is about things that you can't control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don't get scared of yourself because you always know what you're going to do.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can turn dude into a wolf.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.

Ma'am, are you trying to molest me via drivethru?

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.