Trying Quotes

I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.

Roland had sworn off children—they kept trying to kill him.

The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.

I try to do what has never been done before.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

I’m trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don’t know if there’s any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

A lot of people plan for failure, but they don't plan for success, and that's a big problem, especially in the TV world 'cause you're trying to find out what your show is.