Trying Quotes - Page 182

If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that.

A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels... try it!

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.