Trying Quotes

• It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Reason

• Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Mind
  • Style

• Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Trying
  • Failure
  • Rejection

• I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

  

  Lysette Anthony
  • School
  • Age
  • Reality

• I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Trying

• We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Laughter

• In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant to be mean that this is a small town and these people aren't the most talented people. They're trying the best they can. So to be mean, that would be kind of horrifying in its superficiality.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Character
  • Small

• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Giving
  • Singing

• I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at the same time, I'm blessed with the lack of base paint on the canvas.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • Time
  • Blessed
  • Canvas

• I'm trying to bring something new to the Tin Man. He may be the one without the heart, but he's the most heartfelt guy there. It's a more manly heartfelt, a 'don't feel sorry for me' - type of heartfelt. I don't want to say tougher, because that just sounds stupid. But the Tin Man is a man's man.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Heart
  • May
  • Guy

• I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

  

  James McBride
  • Trying
  • Done

• I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Trying
  • Die

• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Real
  • Growing

• The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Ifs
  • Taste
  • Honestly

• Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. ... One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

  

  Keith Ellison
  • God
  • Trying

• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Trying
  • Always

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • School
  • High

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