I really hope he shapes up, you know? He's got a good head on his shoulders when he's not trying to give himself alcohol poisoning.
- Hailey Abbott
Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)
- Keith Ablow
You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. Chantal
- Paulo Coelho
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
- Alan Alda
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
- Shaun Alexander
You look lousy,' he said.
Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.'
'No I mean it. You don't look good.'
'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-'
'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.
- Cassandra Clare
I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
- Bill Parcells
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
- Trey Anastasio
What do you miss about being alive?"
The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
- Laurie Anderson
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
- Carmelo Anthony
Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free.
- Meg Cabot
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
- Francis Bacon
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
- Lloyd Banks
POSSIBLE OPENERS AFTER YOU'VE GOTTEN DRUNK AND SLEPT IN YOUR GUY ROOMMATE'S BED (A LIST):
1. Hey, Drew, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed. I hope I didn't puke all over your sheets.
2. What do you mean? I slept in your bed? Really? I don't remember any of it, I was so wasted.
3. Thanks for not trying to molest me.
- Lauren Barnholdt
It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.
- Lemony Snicket
I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.
- Tom Bergeron
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie
I've never met a girl who thinks like you."
"A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!
- Haruki Murakami
It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.
- Nuno Bettencourt
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'
- Bo Bice
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
- Justin Bieber
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.
- Juliette Binoche
What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.
- Juliette Binoche
He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time..
- Malorie Blackman
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
- Sara Blakely
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- Sara Blakely
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
- Sara Blakely
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
- Erma Bombeck
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting.390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
- George Brett
I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking.
And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
- Louise Brooks
Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
- Clancy Brown
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
- Chuck Palahniuk
She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.
- Stephen Chbosky
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
- Cliff Burton
I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
- George H W Bush
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
- Jon Kabat Zinn
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
- David Cameron
If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
- Suzanne Collins
You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
- Suzanne Collins
Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.
- Suzanne Collins
You're not trying to pick up a girl?"
"I wasn't.
- Cora Carmack
A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
- Barbara Cartland
I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.
- Neko Case
I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.
- Boozoo Chavis
I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
- Kelly Clarkson
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
I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.
- Phil Collins
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney Company
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
- Harry Connick Jr
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
- Harry Connick Jr
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
- Elvis Presley
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
- Kevin Costner
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
- Daniel Craig
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan
I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying!
- Michael Jordan
Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.
- Michael Jordan
I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan
If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.
- Jennifer Crusie
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
- Ted Danson
If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.
- Evan Davis
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
- Jonathan Davis
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
- Mos Def
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
- Don Delillo
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!
- Grey Delisle
My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do!
- Grey Delisle
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
- Ron Dellums
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
- Jim Demint
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.
- Richard Denney
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God a being capable of understanding.
- Graham Greene
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
- Ani Difranco
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
- Ani Difranco
Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know?
- Henry Miller
I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
- David Duval
What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.
- David Duval
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
- Sherwood Eddy
If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital.
If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.
- John Irving
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.
- John Irving
I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun.
- Tracey Emin
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
- Chris Evans
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
- Edward Felten
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
- Jasper Fforde
Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.
- Bobby Flay
I'm not trying to be the new anybody.
- Steve Forbert
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcolm Forbes
I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
- Willa Ford
I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.
- Megan Fox
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I'm not trying to hide it, but it's something you're not to worry about.
- Jostein Gaarder
There is no excuse for not trying.
- Barack Obama
I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.
- Vincent Gallo
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
- Jerry Garcia
I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.
- Greta Gerwig
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
- Robert Guillaume
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
- Taylor Hanson
I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.
- Tim Hardaway
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.
- Keith Haring
If you don't make enemies, you're just not trying.
- Shannon A Hiner
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
- Buddy Holly
She's not trying to prepare us for her death. She's trying to prepare us for her life. For what she has left of it..
- Colleen Hoover
I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?
- Chad Hugo
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
- Ll Cool J
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
- Ll Cool J
I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
- Jayz
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
- Denis Johnson
We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.
- Bruce Johnston
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
- Norah Jones
The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.
- Norah Jones
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
- Jackie Joynerkersee
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
- Chris Kattan
I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
- Lil Kim
I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
- Calvin Klein
I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
- Calvin Klein
It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.
- Chuck Klosterman
I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.
- John Krasinski
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.
- Lenny Kravitz
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
- Patti Labelle
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
- Sean Lennon
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
- C S Lewis
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
- Abbey Lincoln
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
- Rebecca Loos
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
- Roger Maris
If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.
- Don Mattingly
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
- Willie Mays
No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?
- J B Mcgee
So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.
- Ewan Mcgregor
I'm not trying
to bag you. I just wanna hang out."
"Bag me? How do you ever get laid talking like that?
- Jamie Mcguire
A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.
- Seanan Mcguire
I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
- Terry Mcmillan
The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.
- Gerald Mcraney
Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.
- Gerald Mcraney
Oh, please, please, no!' I begged, jumping to my feet. 'Please tell me you are not trying to have a sex talk with me, Charlie.
- Stephenie Meyer
Please tell me you are not trying to have a sex talk with me, Charlie. (Bella)
- Stephenie Meyer
We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
- John Mica
There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.
- Mark Miller
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
- Isaac Mizrahi
I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
- Eddie Money
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
- Joanna Newsom
We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.
- Christine Odonnell
I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
- Kevin Oleary
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
- Mary Oliver
I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
- Joel Osteen
I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
- Dolly Parton
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.
- Sean Paul
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
- Phillip Phillips
I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
- Lisa Marie Presley
I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.
- Lisa Marie Presley
I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
- Gordon Ramsay
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei
- Amy Tan
What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.
- Trent Reznor
I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.
- Don Rickles
Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.
- Maggie Stiefvater
She'd like to bounce me off the ceiling."
"Oh aye,that she would, but she's not trying it at the moment.You're doing well, too." His gaze lifted until his eyes met Keeley's. "As natural at this as she is.Blue bloods, both of you."
"Are we making history,Brian?"
"Bet on it," he told her and kissed Betty just above the nose.
- Nora Roberts
I'm not trying to be someone I'm not.
- Donny Robinson
Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves.
- Christy Romano
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
- Paul Ryan
I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.
- J D Salinger
I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
- Johan Santana
I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm wrist, not trying to die, trying to plug myself back in. (111)
- Sapphire
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
- Marilyn Vos Savant
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
- Martin Sheen
I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.
- John Shors
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.
- June Singer
And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
- Elliott Smith
I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
- Peter Sotos
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
- Oliver Stone
It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.
- Lionel Suggs
Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.
- Amber Tamblyn
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.
- Justin Timberlake
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
- Obie Trice
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
- Brian Walker
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
- Jim Walton
I'm not trying to win individual awards.
- Chris Webber
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
- Bryan White
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
- Kristen Wiig
I'm not trying to prove anything.
- Rita Wilson
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
- Woodrow Wilson
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
- Alex Winter
This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.
- Steve Wynn
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
- Xun Zi
- Hailey Abbott
Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)
- Keith Ablow
You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. Chantal
- Paulo Coelho
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
- Alan Alda
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
- Shaun Alexander
You look lousy,' he said.
Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.'
'No I mean it. You don't look good.'
'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-'
'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.
- Cassandra Clare
I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
- Bill Parcells
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
- Trey Anastasio
What do you miss about being alive?"
The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
- Laurie Anderson
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
- Carmelo Anthony
Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free.
- Meg Cabot
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
- Francis Bacon
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
- Lloyd Banks
POSSIBLE OPENERS AFTER YOU'VE GOTTEN DRUNK AND SLEPT IN YOUR GUY ROOMMATE'S BED (A LIST):
1. Hey, Drew, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed. I hope I didn't puke all over your sheets.
2. What do you mean? I slept in your bed? Really? I don't remember any of it, I was so wasted.
3. Thanks for not trying to molest me.
- Lauren Barnholdt
It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.
- Lemony Snicket
I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.
- Tom Bergeron
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie
I've never met a girl who thinks like you."
"A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!
- Haruki Murakami
It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.
- Nuno Bettencourt
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'
- Bo Bice
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
- Justin Bieber
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.
- Juliette Binoche
What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.
- Juliette Binoche
He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time..
- Malorie Blackman
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
- Sara Blakely
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- Sara Blakely
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
- Sara Blakely
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
- Erma Bombeck
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting.390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
- George Brett
I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking.
And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
- Louise Brooks
Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
- Clancy Brown
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
- Chuck Palahniuk
She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.
- Stephen Chbosky
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
- Cliff Burton
I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
- George H W Bush
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
- Jon Kabat Zinn
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
- David Cameron
If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
- Suzanne Collins
You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
- Suzanne Collins
Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.
- Suzanne Collins
You're not trying to pick up a girl?"
"I wasn't.
- Cora Carmack
A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
- Barbara Cartland
I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.
- Neko Case
I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.
- Boozoo Chavis
I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
- Kelly Clarkson
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
I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.
- Phil Collins
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney Company
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
- Harry Connick Jr
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
- Harry Connick Jr
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
- Elvis Presley
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
- Kevin Costner
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
- Daniel Craig
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan
I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying!
- Michael Jordan
Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.
- Michael Jordan
I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan
If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.
- Jennifer Crusie
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
- Ted Danson
If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.
- Evan Davis
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
- Jonathan Davis
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
- Mos Def
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
- Don Delillo
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!
- Grey Delisle
My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do!
- Grey Delisle
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
- Ron Dellums
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
- Jim Demint
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.
- Richard Denney
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God a being capable of understanding.
- Graham Greene
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
- Ani Difranco
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
- Ani Difranco
Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know?
- Henry Miller
I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
- David Duval
What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.
- David Duval
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
- Sherwood Eddy
If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital.
If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.
- John Irving
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.
- John Irving
I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun.
- Tracey Emin
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
- Chris Evans
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
- Edward Felten
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
- Jasper Fforde
Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.
- Bobby Flay
I'm not trying to be the new anybody.
- Steve Forbert
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcolm Forbes
I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
- Willa Ford
I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.
- Megan Fox
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I'm not trying to hide it, but it's something you're not to worry about.
- Jostein Gaarder
There is no excuse for not trying.
- Barack Obama
I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.
- Vincent Gallo
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
- Jerry Garcia
I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.
- Greta Gerwig
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
- Robert Guillaume
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
- Taylor Hanson
I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.
- Tim Hardaway
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.
- Keith Haring
If you don't make enemies, you're just not trying.
- Shannon A Hiner
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
- Buddy Holly
She's not trying to prepare us for her death. She's trying to prepare us for her life. For what she has left of it..
- Colleen Hoover
I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?
- Chad Hugo
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
- Ll Cool J
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
- Ll Cool J
I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
- Jayz
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
- Denis Johnson
We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.
- Bruce Johnston
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
- Norah Jones
The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.
- Norah Jones
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
- Jackie Joynerkersee
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
- Chris Kattan
I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
- Lil Kim
I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
- Calvin Klein
I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
- Calvin Klein
It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.
- Chuck Klosterman
I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.
- John Krasinski
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.
- Lenny Kravitz
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
- Patti Labelle
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
- Sean Lennon
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
- C S Lewis
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
- Abbey Lincoln
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
- Rebecca Loos
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
- Roger Maris
If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.
- Don Mattingly
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
- Willie Mays
No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?
- J B Mcgee
So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.
- Ewan Mcgregor
I'm not trying
to bag you. I just wanna hang out."
"Bag me? How do you ever get laid talking like that?
- Jamie Mcguire
A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.
- Seanan Mcguire
I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
- Terry Mcmillan
The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.
- Gerald Mcraney
Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.
- Gerald Mcraney
Oh, please, please, no!' I begged, jumping to my feet. 'Please tell me you are not trying to have a sex talk with me, Charlie.
- Stephenie Meyer
Please tell me you are not trying to have a sex talk with me, Charlie. (Bella)
- Stephenie Meyer
We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
- John Mica
There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.
- Mark Miller
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
- Isaac Mizrahi
I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
- Eddie Money
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
- Joanna Newsom
We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.
- Christine Odonnell
I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
- Kevin Oleary
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
- Mary Oliver
I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
- Joel Osteen
I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
- Dolly Parton
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.
- Sean Paul
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
- Phillip Phillips
I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
- Lisa Marie Presley
I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.
- Lisa Marie Presley
I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
- Gordon Ramsay
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei
- Amy Tan
What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.
- Trent Reznor
I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.
- Don Rickles
Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.
- Maggie Stiefvater
She'd like to bounce me off the ceiling."
"Oh aye,that she would, but she's not trying it at the moment.You're doing well, too." His gaze lifted until his eyes met Keeley's. "As natural at this as she is.Blue bloods, both of you."
"Are we making history,Brian?"
"Bet on it," he told her and kissed Betty just above the nose.
- Nora Roberts
I'm not trying to be someone I'm not.
- Donny Robinson
Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves.
- Christy Romano
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
- Paul Ryan
I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.
- J D Salinger
I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
- Johan Santana
I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm wrist, not trying to die, trying to plug myself back in. (111)
- Sapphire
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
- Marilyn Vos Savant
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
- Martin Sheen
I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.
- John Shors
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.
- June Singer
And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
- Elliott Smith
I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
- Peter Sotos
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
- Oliver Stone
It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.
- Lionel Suggs
Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.
- Amber Tamblyn
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.
- Justin Timberlake
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
- Obie Trice
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
- Brian Walker
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
- Jim Walton
I'm not trying to win individual awards.
- Chris Webber
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
- Bryan White
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
- Kristen Wiig
I'm not trying to prove anything.
- Rita Wilson
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
- Woodrow Wilson
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
- Alex Winter
This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.
- Steve Wynn
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
- Xun Zi
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