Trying Quotes

• As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • People
  • Art
  • Culture

• You have to keep trying to get better.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Trying

• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Running
  • Feelings
  • Calves

• I'm just trying to be the next Trisha Yearwood.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Trying

• The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Christian
  • Beginning

• We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

  

  David Pajo
  • Beautiful
  • Playing
  • Anything

• I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Different
  • Family
  • Movie

• Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • War
  • Fool
  • Easy

• I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • World
  • Dream
  • Control

• The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • People
  • Writing
  • Problem

• To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Night
  • Giving
  • Ignorance

• It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

  

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
  • Trying
  • Wisdom
  • Sometimes

• When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Growing
  • Poor
  • Stay

• I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Time
  • Remember
  • America

• Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Dream
  • Enough
  • Foolish

• I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

  

  Tony Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Cameras

• Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Trying
  • Childhood
  • Overcoming

• The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Dream
  • Perfection
  • Smoking

• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Politics
  • Terrorism
  • Enforcement

• I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

  

  Todd English
  • House
  • Looks
  • Fishes

• I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Religious
  • Worldview

• When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Trying
  • Interviews
  • Straightforward

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