Trying Quotes
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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
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I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.
Dolly Parton
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I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with a sense of satisfaction or humor. You can't write a book that is entirely dark without having little spots that hopefully make you laugh out loud.
Evie Wyld
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I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
Ryan Gosling
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There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.
Carrot Top
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Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.
Raymond Burr
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I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
Ernest Gaines
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When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
Maureen Dowd
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You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well, I'm done with that. I think it's much more interesting to say just what you mean.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
Sarah Addison Allen
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If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.
David Schmidtz
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We psychonauts are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share our stories.
Terence McKenna
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I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is
Henry Louis Gates
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And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.
Rajon Rondo
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I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
Theo de Raadt
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My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
Ethan Embry
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I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
Anna Kendrick
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Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.
James Stewart
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The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
Terry Eagleton
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You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.
Michelle Rodriguez