Like Trying Quotes
276 quotes by 249 authors
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Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the…
— Benjamin Carson
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Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to…
— Hillary Clinton
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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good…
— Maya Angelou
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the…
— Harrison Schmitt
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Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
— Larry Wall
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Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your…
— Guy Finley
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
— George Carlin
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[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the…
— Francis Collins
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To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
— Jerome Drayton
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There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from…
— Dalai Lama
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Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
— Margaret Atwood
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CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.
— Bob Lutz
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I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single…
— David Massengill
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Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
— Jack Dempsey
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Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get…
— Bobby Murcer
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Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!
— Nick Cannon
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