Trying Quotes - page 10

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting. (Patrice Leconte)
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? View quote
Rick Danko
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. View quote
Rick Moody
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. View quote
Robert Scheer
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. View quote
Sheena Easton
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. View quote
Slick Rick
I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy. View quote
Steve Yzerman
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn. View quote
Scott Stapp
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. View quote
Sean Lennon
It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. View quote
T Bone Burnett
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. (Tobias Wolff)
I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done. View quote
Todd McFarlane
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. View quote
Todd Solondz
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. View quote
Tracy Kidder
My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. View quote
Ted Allen
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. View quote
William Petersen
Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it. View quote
Young Buck
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go. View quote
Young Buck
In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this. View quote
Rafael Nadal
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting. (Robert Falcon Scott)
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. View quote
Germaine Greer
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. View quote
Groucho Marx
You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it. View quote
John McCain
Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! View quote
Daniel Handler