Trying Quotes - Page 138

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

When you start projecting on the future - "Oh my God, I gotta do this and I'm not there yet" - well, of course you're not there yet because you're here now. That time will come. I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn't feel as stressful.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.