Trying Quotes · Page 105

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and…

— Camille Henrot

Politics is a damn expensive business. I had one hell of a time trying to raise money as a candidate. I had…

— Joe Biden

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character,…

— James Badge Dale

As you know President Bush has been traveling around the country trying to sell his new Social Security plan. He wants to…

— Jay Leno

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with…

— Sargent Shriver

Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps…

— Rashida Jones

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But…

— Birdy

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems…

— Eric Foner

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

— Jacque Fresco

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing…

— Angelina Jolie

The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world,…

— Wallace D. Wattles

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

— Emily Dickinson

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

— Andrew McMahon

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

I'm not scared. I always go forward, trying to create space and make my way toward the goal.

— Neymar

Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all…

— Bill Cosby

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just…

— David First

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing…

— Rene Magritte

After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or…

— Susan Minot

EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched…

— Morihei Ueshiba

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

— John Fowles

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting…

— Ken Buck

I can be. I do not normally try to be. In fact, there have been some reviews - which I've loved -…

— Stevie Nicks

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I…

— Tobin Bell

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad…

— Robert Cormier

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control…

— Goldie Hawn

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily…

— Bryan Fuller

Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make…

— Bill Maher

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

— Terry Pratchett

I know how much I put in and it does hurt when people say you are not trying.

— Judd Trump

I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue…

— Nicolas Cage

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

— Steven Wright

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on…

— Eric Ries

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent…

— Krista Allen

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

— Sam Snead

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

— Jimmy Cannon

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to…

— Tupac Shakur

I have several things that I'm working on and trying to put together. It's hard to say exactly what's next. I think…

— David Robert Mitchell

Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.

— Inbar Lavi