Trying Quotes

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

I try to renew and create something new every time.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.

That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

No one's trying to get with jugglers.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.