Trying Quotes

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.

The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. Im proud to say I was the first to stop running.

Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

I think most video game movies have a problem, because they do try and have one foot in one door and another foot in a completely door.

Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down.

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

I try not to pay much attention to what people say-I just try to concentrate on the game.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.