Trying Quotes

• ‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Cat

• We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Real
  • Rock
  • Woman

• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

  

  Mark Shields
  • Trying

• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  

  Bill Klem
  • World
  • Trying

• We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • People
  • Culture
  • Action

• It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

  

  David Cross
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Funny

• You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Plant

• Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Black

• You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

  

  Kip Moore
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Remember
  • Forgotten
  • Rejoice

• When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Trying
  • Help

• There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Superman

• I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

  

  Prince Royce
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

  

  Patti Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • Father

• Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that!

  

  Colton Haynes
  • Trying

• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Athlete
  • Equality
  • Stand

• Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Individual
  • Combination
  • Novelty

• If you are trying to think ahead musically, it is not going to help you. It is better to ignore what is happening melodically and just look at the little dots coming at you and the corresponding colors and try to do it at the right time.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Color

• It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Hollywood

• What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Jesus
  • Challenge
  • Violence

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