I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts.
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.
The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.
I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like. I like them all. Yeah?Yeah. He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water. Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other.
It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.
Everything tries to be round.
God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.