Trying Quotes

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.

Hillary's trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind

I try to do things the right way.

I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I'm an advisor on.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

How do you lay low but still do your job? Try to stay out there without being out there like Jenny McCarthy?

On Sundays, I lay low, sulk a lot, and try to get my head together for next week.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.