Trying Quotes

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Morning

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Trying
  • Lost

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Page

• At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Change
  • Myself

• They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Waste

• Dear reader dearest inscrutable listener inscrutably harking or regrettably more likely not harking except in that chamber in me that posits you with me every moment I’m speaking or trying to speak

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Trying

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • American
  • Environment
  • Color

• I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Dream
  • Running
  • Lake

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • American
  • Happiness
  • Youth

• I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Detail

• I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Pretty

• These left me in no doubt that something was trying to communicate with us, but that direct communication would be counterproductive. It seemed to be an important part of the scheme to create a sense of mystery.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Important
  • Doubt
  • Communication

• I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Shoes

• We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • World
  • May
  • Help

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• Hillary Clinton was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She’s talking to me.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • She
  • Decision

• So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Career

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Money
  • Tennis

• "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web."

  

  E. B. White
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Miracle

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