Trying Quotes

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.

[Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my loved ones. They knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me.

I also notice the very nasty commercials that Hillary Clinton do on me in so many different ways, which I don't do on her. Maybe I'm trying to save the money.

Hillary Clinton tries to reset, it failed. They all tried. But I'm different than those people. Go ahead.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement.

Iran is taking over Iraq. They've been trying to for many, many decades. And now they're finally taking over Iraq. As we sit here, they're taking over Iraq. We get nothing.

People do not know what an absolute extremist left-wing radical Tim Kaine has been his entire life and they're going to do everything they can to try to mask and cover that up .

As long as you are thinking, try to think about big things

As I said in Phoenix we had 21,000 people. We had - we didn't even have anybody stand up and try and disrupt. You know, they're disrupters.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

The media is trying to rig the election.

The media's trying to attack my administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they're not happy about it for whatever reason.

In the pulpit, were supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

I don't really try to set any long-term goals.

The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

I'm trying to live with no fears and not care what anyone has to say.