Trying Quotes - Page 599

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

In the '60s and '70s it was a great period for American films because studios were still run by individuals who worked off the seat of their pants and went along with things. At that time, they were very uncertain about what to make because of the influence of television. A lot of really terrific movies were made. But then the studios gradually became more corporate and were owned by corporations and run in that way and now they're very nervous. You see what they make - sequels, franchises and try not to take risks.

Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.

Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?

Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll start with some New notion or other.

Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear... Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches.

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.

I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

I have to drink a lot of fluids, try not to dehydrate, and keep stretching.

I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they only end up looking like some crappy, pretentious film-school thing. So I think the interest in film is really about the fashion world finding another form of expression.