Trying Quotes
- Page 65I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
Daniel Clowes
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey
It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
Sean Booth
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
Norah Jones
I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.
Jeremy Jackson
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Gilbert Parker
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
Ed Markey
I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
Lyle Lovett
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Lasse Hallstrom
I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
Adam Sandler
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
Gary Carter
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
Bill Condon
I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
Jonathan Miller
I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
Tyra Banks
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
Godfrey Reggio
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
Allan Sherman
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
Martin Mull
I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.
Diahann Carroll
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
Thomas Kincade
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
Jon Stewart
That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
Haley Joel Osment