Trying Quotes

I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

Many try to force the past to change.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

You just have to keep in mind that the important relationship is the relationship with the audience. That's what I try to do. Everything else is secondary.

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

I don't want to allow everyone in the media to say everyone is in the alt right, which is what they try to do too often. Then it's their judgment on who is a racist and who isn't.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.

I think it's always good for a band to try and grow.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.