Trying Quotes
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
Patrick McGoohan
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
Sadie Jones
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I always tell people, never wear anything that'll make them uncomfortable when you're trying to go out and have a good time.
Chris March
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We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
Corita Kent
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Trying to give back a little bit is important.
Mark Goddard
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
Victor LaValle
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Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.
Chad Hurley
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
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I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.
Pete Sampras
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'Only trying to make conversation, friend.''Don’t bother-it’s an overrated activity at the best of times.'
Alastair Reynolds
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On a really good day, if I'm really trying, in the morning I'll have a piece of toast, vitamins and nuts, or a bagel with a little cream cheese. Then at lunch time, I'll get me one of those Chinese chicken salads, a glass of juice, and a big glass of water.
Jo Marie Payton
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When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
Bruce Willis
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
Taylor Sheridan
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Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.
Bisco Hatori
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Barbara Kruger
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People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.
Gerald Maxwell Rivera
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner
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The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.
Sean Hannity
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B. B. King
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel
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Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
Jim DeMint
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
Irwin Winkler