Trying Quotes

I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

I always try to write about believable people.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.

The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.

I'm not trying to be coy, but I think everyone notices these things like skin color but some people are more aware that they are noticing them than others, maybe. If that makes sense.

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.

I will try just about all the folk food we go to in any place.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to be told, like I want to see it and how I'm feeling in my life.

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

I should’ve known the day was going to turn out bad when it started with my father trying to kill me

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying to save money for when you split up your property.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

I try not to look back on my career.

The problem is someone will try to convince you That they know the answer no matter the question Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world 'Cause it's just ..... crazy - you know that it is

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.