We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
~By Alan Bennett ~
We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
~By Ian St. John ~
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
~By George Orwell ~
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
~By Ikue Mori ~
People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.
~By David Neeleman ~
One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
~By Bill Williams ~
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
~By Richard Pryor ~
First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
~By Jim Coleman ~
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
~By Margaret Whiting ~
Every day I am trying to improve my life.
~By Alicia Machado ~
I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.
~By Todd Barry ~
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
~By Fay Wray ~
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.
~By Sue Wicks ~
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
~By Eliot Engel ~
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
~By Jim Carrey ~
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
~By Robert Plant ~
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
My future's about trying to be a better man.
~By Terrence Howard ~
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
~By Edna O'Brien ~
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
~By Gale Norton ~
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
~By Dave Eggers ~
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
~By Elvis Presley ~
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
~By Aimee Mann ~
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
~By Scott Patterson ~
Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
~By Patty Hearst ~
I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.
~By Jason Kidd ~
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
~By Bill Scott ~
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.
~By Sheila B. Kamerman ~
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
~By Todd Rundgren ~
Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
~By Gray Davis ~
For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
~By George Carlin ~
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
~By David Bohm ~
I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.
~By Shepard Smith ~
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
~By Rose Byrne ~
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
~By Charlie Hunter ~
It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
~By Sean Booth ~
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
~By Terri Windling ~
We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
~By Nick Lachey ~
One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.
~By Tommy Chong ~
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
~By Ella Fitzgerald ~
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
~By Ron Wood ~
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
~By Chaka Khan ~
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
~By Groucho Marx ~
I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
~By Hans Blix ~
In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
~By Travis Barker ~
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
~By David Friedman ~
I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
~By Tiger Woods ~
I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?
~By Chad Hugo ~
There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.
~By Brad Garrett ~
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.
~By Kristin Davis ~
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
~By Bob Woodward ~
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.
~By Robert Stone ~
In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.
~By Rick Barry ~
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
~By Lukas Foss ~
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
~By Paul Hawken ~
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
~By H. Stanley Judd ~
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
~By Colin Greenwood ~
Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.
~By Andy Richter ~
There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.
~By Mark Kelly ~
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