Trying Quotes
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J. D. Salinger
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
S. J. Perelman
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As a working mom, you're running around all the time, and you're trying to figure out what can my kid eat that's healthy because, I guess, I'm 'supposed to do that.'
Anna Faris
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If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
Jamie Dimon
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
N. T. Wright
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I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
Richie Sambora
Bon Jovi
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They're trying to destroy my family, so I take great umbrage with that. And defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock.
Charlie Sheen
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If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.
Matthew Stewart
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The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody - even Richard Dawkins - sees design in biology. You see this design when you see co-ordinated parts coming together to perform a function - like in a hand. And so it's the appearance of design that everybody's trying to explain. So that if Darwin's theory doesn't explain it we're left with no other explanation than maybe it really was designed. That's essentially the design argument.
Michael Behe
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I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly.
Kanye West
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I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.
Quentin Dupieux
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Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
Jay Asher
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Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
Kathleen Winsor
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I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience
Frances Bean Cobain
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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
Angus Wilson
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You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
Protagoras
