Trying Quotes - Page 449

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

In a press conference, everyone is required to be like, "I'm just trying to do what's best for the team," but really?! It's a hilarious lie that everybody allows to be told.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

Nothing is impossible. Whatever idea comes up, we always try to make it. Sometimes it doesn't work because it's just not technically achievable. But you can always make things better, more contemporary with the construction, the inside, the weight, and all of that.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm gonna try stuff.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.