Trying Quotes - Page 336

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else.

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't try to charm or persuade. He just says, thanks to the people who voted for me and the rest of you are losers.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else.

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

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