Trying Quotes

I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.

The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.

I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you're gonna burst, so I try not to do that.

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.

I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

At least we got to see the worst haircut since 1984 try to steal the spotlight from lovely Taylor Swift.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.

Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.