Quotes by Trying There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent. David Longstreth songtryingideas If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme. David Luiz artistic-lifeblack-and-whitetrying I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way. David Macaulay tryingbookpeople What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep. David Mandel wiseperfecttrying I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it. David Levithan knowing-who-you-arewanttrying Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues. David Markson takentryingeurope You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works. David Maister tryingpeopleworld Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow. David Mccandless journalismgoaltrying The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion. David Milne linescolortrying And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers. David Milch might-usemattertrying The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the political spectrum. I'm left-leaning, and I discovered as I was doing it that I had an impulse to make the left-hand side appear better than the right-hand side. That was manifesting in the way I was choosing certain words, framing certain ideas. I shared it with a few people, and they all said, "Oh my God, this is really biased." I hadn't seen it at all. David Mccandless politicaltryingpeople And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time. David Miliband truth-issucceedtrying In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right. David Nevins washington-monumentmemorialtrying Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once. David Levithan tryinggivingtwo This will be Michelle Obama's last opportunity to try to get me to eat kale. David Letterman kaleopportunitytrying Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization. David Oyelowo losttryingway To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that. David Pajo takentryinglong The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. David Pajo artisttryingchildren We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it. David Pajo rockstryingbeautiful I gravitate towards anything that feels challenging to me, that feels like it's gonna be saying something a bit different and new to the audience, and anything that moves me. I do movies that I would want to see, so I don't necessarily gravitate towards any genre in particular. I just try and do the best work I can and also try to keep the audience guessing. David Oyelowo challengestryingmoving«189190191192193194195196197198199»
