I intend to live forever, or die trying.
~By Groucho Marx ~
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
~By Sean Lennon ~
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well.
~By Will Arnett ~
To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
~By Josh Silver ~
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.
~By Poul Anderson ~
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
~By Richard Reeves ~
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
~By Aries Spears ~
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
~By Steve Jobs ~
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.
~By Jim Lampley ~
I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.
~By Jon Favreau ~
Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.
~By Charles Moore ~
I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
~By Michael Eisner ~
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
~By Naomi Campbell ~
My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.
~By Adrian Belew ~
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
~By Jeff Tweedy ~
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
~By John H. Speke ~
It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
~By Christopher Darden ~
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
~By Toni Morrison ~
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
~By Richard Russo ~
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
~By Colin Greenwood ~
Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
~By Judy Garland ~
On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
~By Damon Hill ~
I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
~By David Amram ~
Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?
~By Vivien Kellems ~
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
~By David Cronenberg ~
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
~By Campbell Scott ~
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
~By Bernardo Bertolucci ~
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
~By Corey Haim ~
Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
~By Ian St. John ~
Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.
~By Michael Jeter ~
We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.
~By David Neeleman ~
It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.
~By Diana Ross ~
There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.
~By Brad Garrett ~
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
~By Rachel Zoe ~
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
~By Adam Sandler ~
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
~By Merle Haggard ~
I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.
~By Jamie Farr ~
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
~By Aaron Spelling ~
I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
~By Gary Cherone ~
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
~By John Fogerty ~
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
~By Natalie Merchant ~
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
~By Nat King Cole ~
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun.
~By Tracey Emin ~
You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
~By Ray Walston ~
St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.
~By Leonard Little ~
Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
~By Marc Maron ~
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.
~By Mark Spitz ~
No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
~By Harold Ramis ~
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
~By Bill Gates ~
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
~By Danielle Steel ~
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
~By Steve Albini ~
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
~By Steven Wright ~
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 surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
~By Courtney Love ~
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
~By Bill Bradley ~
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
~By Sherwood Eddy ~
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
~By Cynthia McKinney ~
And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.
~By Lee Scott ~
I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.
~By Chris Webber ~
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
~By Larry David ~
I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
~By Hasil Adkins ~
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
~By Mark Rothko ~
I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
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 ~
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
~By Keren Ann ~
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
~By Judith Light ~
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
~By Mark Spitz ~
I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
~By John Fogerty ~
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
~By Diane Cilento ~
Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.
~By Paul Tagliabue ~
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
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