Trying Quotes

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

~ Eddie Vedder

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

~ Billy Corgan

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

~ Bella Hadid

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

~ Ma Huateng

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

~ Sia

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

~ Orlando Bloom

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

~ Joe Adcock

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

~ David Shields

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.

~ Jochen Zeitz

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

~ Ellen Ochoa

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

~ Elon Musk

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

~ Josh Klinghoffer

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

~ Rosa Parks

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

~ Matthew Perry

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

~ Sarah Gadon

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

~ Alexander Payne

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

~ Fergie

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

~ Edward Tufte

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

~ Damon Lindelof

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

~ Harold Bloom

When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.

~ Mother Angelica

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

~ Angelique Kerber

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

~ Groucho Marx

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

~ Ron White

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. That's what I'm trying to do with immigration. If what the founding fathers said is true, that we are all equal, then let's fight for that.

~ Jorge Ramos

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

~ Gustav Mahler

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

~ Sonny Rollins

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

~ Will Champion

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

~ Trey Anastasio

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

~ Sean Lennon

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

~ Quentin Tarantino

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

~ Schoolboy Q

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

~ David Chipperfield

I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

~ Madeleine Albright