Trying Quotes

• 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 try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Reinvesting

• I'm not trying to be an inspiration, but I'm flattered to be considered one.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Trying
  • Inspiration

• I’m just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

  

  Anthony Bennett
  • Trying
  • Player
  • Wins

• I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Trying

• It doesn't really make a lot of sense. We're all just trying to deal with this. It's really shocking.

  

  Jennifer Jones
  • Trying
  • Deal

• Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle her with your charms. Rock her world. Go on." [...] "What," Ash said, "all of us?" "Do you want to stand around trying to guess if she likes pretty boys or rough trade?" Jared asked, gesturing lazily from Ash to himself. "Excuse me, what did you just call yourself?" Ash demanded. "No, wait a second, I don't care. What did you just call me?

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • World
  • Care
  • Waiting

• I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People
  • Trying
  • Age

• When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Trying
  • Spring
  • Adventure

• The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

  

  William Gibson
  • Trying
  • Fiction

• I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Honest

• Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not.

  

  Ray Allen
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Jobs

• Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Feelings
  • Everyday
  • Emotion

• Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Mean

• I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Trying
  • Audience
  • Comfortable

• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Important
  • Home
  • Interesting

• I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Nice
  • Focus
  • Negative

• I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Trying
  • Existed

• Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Calm

• A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • World
  • Song
  • Spring

• Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

  

  David Castle
  • World
  • Goal
  • Clients

• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Song

• We're trying to raise good humans, and some days, we're better at it than others. You don't always get treats.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • Good
  • Trying

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