Trying Quotes

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.