Trying Quotes

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

I've... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.

Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.

The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always trying to bring them in.

I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

I try to play within the flow of the team's offense.

Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

I think the Democrats are trying to say is like in February [2017] it goes away and you won't have your health care plan tomorrow. That's not what we're talking about.

We do not have a debt crisis right now, but we see it coming. We know it's irrefutably happening. And the point we're trying to make with our budget is let's get ahead of this problem.

I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

I don't try to control my days.

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.