Trying Quotes
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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
William H. Macy
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Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
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People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.
Candy Chang
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I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.
Stephen Dunn
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I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
Sara Gilbert
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I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.
Mike Weir
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It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.
Jessica Simpson
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Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
William Lyon Phelps
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Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
Sofia Coppola
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I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we're doing it every day, I think that the actor's point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.
Joe Morton
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One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
Scarlett Thomas
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Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.
Nick Willing -
I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
Agnes Varda
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When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.
William Cranch Bond
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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Georg Brandes
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Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.
Melissa Ordway
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don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.
Karch Kiraly
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I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.
Sheila Heti
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Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger
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I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.
Kate Gosselin
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I'm honored that other comedians like what I do. That means the world to me. But at the same time when I'm on stage I'm not just trying to make the comedians laugh - I'm also trying to make the audience laugh. I want to make everybody laugh.
Brian Regan
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If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.
Francine Prose