Trying Quotes · Page 1,047

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about…

— Jake Tapper

I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy.…

— Immortal Technique

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will…

— Dean Koontz

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third…

— Jimi Hendrix

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

— Norman Thomas

The neatest thing about research and science is we don't necessarily know what's going to come down the pike. We think we…

— Leroy Chiao

My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to…

— Jonathon Keats

“One needs to keep reminding themselves of higher goals at all times while observing the outcomes of smaller actions.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their…

— Willis Earl Beal

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or…

— Sam Brownback

What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back,…

— Frederick Buechner

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something…

— Fred Armisen

I think what listeners enjoy, as much as they love the authenticity that is podcasting, they also enjoy feeling like this is…

— Alex Cooper

I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind…

— Tavi Gevinson

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Forget the stress of trying to find a taxi while you freeze. Ubers make you feel like you have a personal driver...…

— Tinsley Mortimer

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're…

— Michael Haneke

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line…

— Jack Kerouac

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

— Manny Machado

We literally have some of us in the modern culture trying their best to stomp out every other way of life, really.…

— Mr. Lif

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

— Franco Harris

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a…

— Lee Ann Womack

The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will…

— Muhammad Ali

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in…

— Billy Campbell

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do…

— Anna Paquin

When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in…

— Leonid Brezhnev

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a…

— Ellen DeGeneres

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time…

— Nicolas Cage

The response you get when you're young like "oh you're just getting laughs because you're a little kid and you're cute". They…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to…

— Peter Jackson

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy…

— Joyce Meyer

A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses…

— Cornelius Cardew

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

— Jim Carrey

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

— Anonymous

I still have a stammer. I hate it; I loathe and despise it. But it's always there, and I have lots of…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other…

— Ernie Chambers

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during…

— Thabo Mbeki

Try is the opposite of hiding.

— Seth

I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo…

— John McCain