Trying Quotes

I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

~ Paige Vanzant

There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.

~ Kelsey Grammer

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

~ Peter Diamandis

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

~ Jack Kevorkian

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

~ Graham Greene

We grow small trying to be great.

~ E. Stanley Jones

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

~ Steve Yzerman

We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver applicants - and looking at travel manifests on the airplanes trying to come into the United States.

~ Mike Mccaul

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.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

~ Seth Rogen

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

~ Vivienne Westwood

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

~ Douglas Adams

I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

~ Ashley Wagner

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.

~ Steve Albini

Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

~ Nicola Formichetti

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

~ Richard Pryor

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

~ Honoré De Balzac

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

~ Dimebag Darrell

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

~ Buddy Holly

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

~ J. Cole

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

~ Kristen Wiig

I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of thing. But I'm open to whatever is done well. I don't have any agenda. I'm not like Fugazi - I'm not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.

~ Eric Andre

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

~ Richard Lewis

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

~ Steven Wright

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

~ Uzo Aduba

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

~ Andy Warhol

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

~ Thomas Heatherwick

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

~ Jim Morrison

Trying to force creativity is never good.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

~ Bill Bradley

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

~ Paul Wellstone

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

~ William Glasser

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

~ Steven Adams

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

~ Frank Abagnale

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

~ Larry Wall

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

~ Maia Mitchell

Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.

~ Alison Sweeney

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

~ Gillian Jacobs