Trying Quotes - Page 728

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence to try some more. Gathering these stories together was fun, but I realized when I read them that I have certain mental preoccupations and they keep recurring in my stories.

I'm trying to do something that I have kind've a clue how to do.

I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.

Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Home is wherever I am. People make too big a deal about where you live. I try to be grounded in myself. Home is another way of saying 'a place where you keep all your stuff'.

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.