Trying Quotes

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.

Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. Serve it out and eat it up. Have a try, have a try.

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

I'm trying to do things I have never done. Like I recently went to 3 different ballets. And I loved trying to learn how to like those a little bit.

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.