She wasn't trying to spy on me -- she was just trying to…

“...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows…

— Ned Beauman

“He wasn’t really a spy; he just helped them out when they were busy.”

— Tony Rattigan

“Maybe we’re just trying too hard, you know?”

— Brandon Sanderson

I've never walked through the curtain with someone I wasn't trying to audition as a WrestleMania main-eventer, and I never want to.

— Paul Heyman

When I was making the 'Fast and Furious' movies, I wasn't trying to make a 'Fast and Furious' movie.

— Justin Lin

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

— Bettie Page

“If I weren't struggling, if I weren't keeled over in agony, if my muscles weren't screaming at the end of a long day...then I…

— Rachel E. Carter

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

— Girl Talk

“and if he could survive the experience without completely losing heart, then perhaps there was some hope for him after all. By sticking with…

— Paul Auster

“I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’t trying to be deceitful.”

— Quinn Loftis

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me…

— Ken Kesey

I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or nothing like…

— Young De

Clinic Patient: I wasn't trying to off myself. House: No, you were trying to kill the wall.

— House MD

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

— Jeff Lowe

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for…

— David Dobrik