Trying Quotes - Page 516

You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.

What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as I have characterized it is much broader and richer than many of us today imagine. It is not just about "Five Points," and it was never just about [John ] Calvin's thought.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I always try to adjust to the situation.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.