Trying Quotes

You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

Many people in and out of showbiz live their lives in different ways. I try to be the best I can be.

We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every episode. That is what we took advantage of.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.

I really appreciate it when people say "no" to me. I want people to understand that I'm totally supportive of what it is they're trying to do as long as we're all on the same team.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

I'm actually kind of more adventurous. I like to go out on the floors and try to be incognito. Because it's more fun to be out there. So - when people do recognize you it's a little bit scarier.

Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!

I'm trying to drink more water.

It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.

With my busy schedule, it's impossible to have a set fitness routine. So instead I like to try and incorporate exercise into my daily life whenever I can - which requires some creativity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.