Trying Quotes - Page 323

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

I try not to have a lot of sugar in my system. If I have sugar for breakfast, whether that be fruit or some pancakes or French toast, they'll make sure all of the meals for the rest of the day have no sugar in them. I try to take the sugar out of my diet.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic.

Did you ever try to sleep sober?

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed and apartheid in South Africa collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. I don't know anyone who foresaw those events. It seems to me that as a species we are constantly trying to adapt ourselves to the unexpected. In the meantime, we talk as if we are in control, and we're not. This seems to me to be the truth about the twentieth century.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.