Trying Quotes

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I try not to look for messages in films.

Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.

I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.

The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

Cubism is fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many avenues that haven't been explored yet.

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

I don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes.

You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it's all in your head.

Shooting on the street in Brazil - compared to people trying to sneak a picture of something, if you're shooting in the States or Canada - people would literally just try to grab you.

I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.

I try to stay on top of my game physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.