Trying Quotes - page 9

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. (Adrian Belew)
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. View quote
Bo Jackson
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. View quote
Boz Scaggs
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying. View quote
Chaka Khan
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself. View quote
Dale Earnhardt
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. View quote
David Amram
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. View quote
David Soul
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. View quote
Diane Cilento
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles. View quote
Fred Ward
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with. View quote
Fred Ward
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. (Fred Ward)
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. View quote
Glenn Danzig
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. View quote
Goldwin Smith
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment. View quote
Gale Norton
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones. View quote
Gary Cherone
If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job. View quote
Ian St John
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself. View quote
Jamie Chung
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. View quote
Levon Helm
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. View quote
Laurence Housman
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that. View quote
Leif Garrett
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. (Mark-Paul Gosselaar)
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know. View quote
Marian McPartland
After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career. View quote
Matthew Ashford
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous. View quote
Max Cannon
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas