Trying Quotes - Page 136

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga!

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

I try to see every day as a celebration.

IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

I just try to do what I do best, contribute to my team.