Quotes by category:Trying

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves... by Cindy Sherman

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

challenges trying thinking

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

cindy trying character

I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

trying character thinking

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul. by Claire Bloom

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

soul trying book

Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

hardest stills trying

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

tides feet trying

Alex touches her arm. "You look nice." "Nice?" she repeats. "Try harder, Alex." He flushes adorably. "Really nice," he says. "Next time, try this," Harry says. He reaches for my hand. "Franny, I didn't know what beauty was until I saw you walking toward us a minute ago. "I like this better," I say, pulling away. "At least he sounded like he meant it." "I meant it," Harry says, almost irritably.

Claire LaZebnik

nice trying hands

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

Claire McCaskill

welcome party trying

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

Claire McCaskill

election impact trying

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job. by Clara Hughes

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

goal trying jobs

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seyli... by Clare B. Dunkle

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

Clare B. Dunkle

cat important trying

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try ca... by Clarence Darrow

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Clarence Darrow

real trials trying

I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying to perfect what I started out doing with brushes, pen and ink, paint, etc. The transition, for me, from typewriter to computer was a big step. I am now very comfortable with writing on a computer but it took awhile. Because I did make that big step I won't rule out what happens in the future.

perfect writing trying

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

trying giving mean

But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.

trying believe book

Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

internet artist trying

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

Claude C. Hopkins

writing trying people

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

music-love tradition trying

What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.

trying reality art