Trying Quotes

Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.

Lady luck is trying his best for Liverpool

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.

I've learned to be patient. When I was younger I rushed things a lot. I tried to attack the game. Now I get teammates more involved before I try to take over.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. All I'm trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don't get caught up in the individual stats or the awards.

For the most part I try to just stay focused not on my play but on our team.

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

Expose yourself as you are without trying to be someone else.

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"

Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it?

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.