Trying Quotes

• Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

  

  Will Self
  • Consciousness
  • Novel
  • Dialogue

• I've been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I'm just trying to have fun with being retired.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Trying
  • Fun

• They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Christian
  • Enough
  • Argument

• Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Trying

• Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Fun
  • Sometimes
  • Film

• Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Writing
  • Collaboration

• I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Moments
  • Film
  • Feels

• I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

  

  Carol Matas
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Enough

• We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity. You should wear whatever seems true to you. If that means wearing a tux, if that means wearing a short dress, a floor-length dress, or whatever the case is - do what feels right to you. Try not to get in trouble though!

  

  Winnie Harlow
  • Different
  • Mean
  • Style

• The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Summer
  • Lying

• If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Beautiful
  • Acting
  • Able

• Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Trying
  • Rejection

• I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Trying
  • Experts
  • Ransom

• Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through a thousand documents. So there's lots of things that machines are better at including in mental task than us. There's many more that they're not as good at, but the direction is pretty obvious and the progress is clear.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Trying
  • Progress
  • Obvious

• I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

  

  Michael Sandel
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Shapes

• When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

  

  David Sedaris
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it's something I would love to do.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Men
  • Long
  • Drink

• Women are playing hockey because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

  

  Cammi Granato
  • Men
  • Games
  • Hockey

• You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Trying
  • Beautiful
  • Process

• We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Giving
  • Dance
  • Muscles

• Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.

  

  Cesar Pelli
  • Opportunity
  • Building
  • Obligation

• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Ego

• Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • Trying
  • Church
  • Christ

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