I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
Geddy Lee

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
Christian Bale

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Waylon Jennings

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
Jack Nicklaus

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.
Megan Fox

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Shelley Winters

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
Shelley Winters

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Tom Hanks

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
Tom Hanks

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.
Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.
Carrie Underwood

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.
Leonard Nimoy

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
Robert Plant

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
Clay Aiken