I don’t think I’m unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it’s a really hard thing to do. – Halle Berry
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene
I’m one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I’m trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I’m doing now. – Hillary Clinton
You can run in behind someone – one v. one, you’re better – so I’m always trying to work on my speed. That’s probably one aspect I’ve worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that’s one area I really work on. – Harry Kane
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much. – Hans Jonas
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I’ve been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. – Harold H. Greene
It’s almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they’re to be respected, and they’re powerful. – Helen Fisher
I’m always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. – Gretchen Rubin
I can’t write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ. – Harvey Pekar
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. – Haruki Murakami
Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he’s not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race. – Herman Cain
What I’m trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. – Godfrey Reggio
Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress. – Gina Holden
I mean, I’m a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can. – Hillary Clinton
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of ‘Supergirl’ and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don’t want it to be the same as the Superman story. – Helen Slater
The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it’s going to become. – Hampton Sides
I’ll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I’ve just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that’s going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I’m here! I really want to! – Harley Quinn Smith
In Asia, it is very hectic – there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It’s pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline. – Godfrey Gao
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we’re trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs. – Harold E. Varmus
I’m trying to champion the naturalist’s worldview and show it’s not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be. – Greg Graffin
I’m taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that’s not going too well. – Helle Thorning-Schmidt
I went to stand-up when my rock n’ roll dreams weren’t coming true. I knew it wasn’t going to happen when I was in a New Wave band in 1992 – at the height of grunge. Then I heard No Doubt’s ‘Spiderwebs’ and I said, ‘Well, we’re done.’ They did – and succeeded at – what we were trying to do. – Greg Behrendt
That professionalism comes from what I’ve watched people do on the set. I’m just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can. – Haley Joel Osment
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. – Herb Kelleher
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. – Henry Rollins
