But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. – Alan Watts
I’m a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don’t try to fight it. It’s proven very well for me. – Chelsea Handler
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it’s hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off. – Alan Parsons
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology. – Bjarke Ingels
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. – Christopher Hitchens
It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. – Charles Kettering
I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar, so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross. – Brenda Song
I don’t make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead. – Bradley Wiggins
When I’m in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along. – Burton Cummings
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try – by punishing the troublesome – to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. – Barbara Deming
If it isn’t necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don’t have anything special to do for the day, I try not to wear any make up. – Amanda Schull
I do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be. – Bill Condon
I read and watch movies. I can’t go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It’s worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes. – Ayumi Hamasaki
When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento. – Brie Larson
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. – Andy Warhol
I don’t go online, I don’t read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet. – Aaron Johnson
When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup. – Bobby Thomson
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. – Alva Noto
I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. – Betty White
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying. – Christy Turlington