Trying Quotes

• One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

  

  Ashley Monroe
  • Trying
  • Cool

• His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Trying
  • Soul

• I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Direct

• It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • Trying

• Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.

  

  Alan Bean
  • Good
  • Children
  • Family

• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movies

• I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

  

  Billy Koch
  • Service
  • Gold
  • Jump

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • War
  • Together
  • Challenge

• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict, look at the wars.' And I believe, yes, we're still moving toward a deeper spirituality. It's personal. It's grassroots. It's everybody trying to get their own connection made, and from there it grows out.

  

  James Redfield
  • Believe
  • Moving
  • Spiritual

• In any operation, what you have to do is to persuade the patient to grant access to the patient's energy. The purest form of that is when you're trying to help a woman through labor: when you're saying, 'Push, push!' and you're rhythmically with the woman.

  

  David Milch
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Energy

• Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

  

  Ellen Muth
  • Up
  • She
  • Friend

• Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Trying
  • Someday

• The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Inspiration
  • Anxiety
  • Research

• As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Memories

• I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Mate
  • Unlike

• If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Married
  • Break
  • Taxes

• I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Trying
  • Daughter

• I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Game

• When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • History
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Long
  • Done
  • Chess

• I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Nice

• I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Writing
  • True
  • Moments

• No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Mind
  • Model
  • Guitar

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