Trying Quotes

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.