“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.” IfsKnowsTryingStillsI CanHardAgeBeautifulAttentionFiveCuttingCeaseForty Author:Paulina Porizkova
“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.” TryingMatterHappinessPracticeFiveMinutesBuddhismBiggerUnhappyMiserableFive MinutesStop TryingYour SmileJust Smile Author:Frederick Lenz
“Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.” TryingYearsFiveWeaponsNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsDiplomacy Author:Joseph Cirincione
“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.” PeopleTryingYearsFiveTenYears AgoLifetimeCommittedClockScoreBetter Now Author:Jerry Garcia
“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.” TryingKindMeanLittlesDoneRunningWantedBitsHoursRolesFiveWeekFitSceneSixLittle BitSevenEightBe KindWorthwhile Author:Guy Pearce
“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.” IfsThinkingFeelsTryingTwoDifferentEndsFunPartyFiveSweetSixFishesMealsDifferent ThingsChickensVegetablesRecipesCocktailsShrimpCocktail PartiesSweet Things Author:Ina Garten
“I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingLooksPlayWholeWishMy OwnFantasyFive Author:Cindy Margolis
“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.” ThinkingTryingThreeNextFunProcessGoalFiveHappenedHundredOpeningSixtyShakingLiftingTry AgainExaminingThe Next OneChristmas Present Author:Benjamin Hoff
“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.” GivingWritingTryingMayBookStoriesBigsRealityValuesReadingGoalNovelFiveFourReturnIllusionSizeShort Story Author:James Clavell
“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.” WorldTryingI CanTwoPainThreeDifferencesChurchSpacePleasureFiveFourFootballTasteSmellSensesKicksBellsLemonsFive SensesLimesChimesTweensChurch Bells Author:Andy Partridge
“To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.” KnowsWantTryingMindDifferentEnergyFiveStageClothesFairsBlowShirtsDisgustingPointlessDifferent Times Author:Sam Endicott
“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.” TryingYearsHas BeensSaidPastHousePresidentWhiteSecretHalfFiveFive YearsWhite HousePresident ObamaFenceJumpingIncidentsOther HalfSecret ServiceIntruders Author:Conan O'Brien
“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.” IfsWayTryingMeanTwoHandsHoursLinesFiveFourSeaArmsSixRiversWeightFishesNineBoatLakesFishingPoundsLengthCasting Author:Ted Trueblood
“I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.” TryingBigsFatherGivenFiveCuttingBrotherBeing A FatherGood FatherBig Families Author:David Charvet
“I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.” IfsKnowsWantTryingLooksAbleNightGuySexFiveMinutesFiguresConversationWasteFasterWasting TimeFive MinutesAll Night Author:Tyrese Gibson
“I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.” PeopleThinkingTryingSexFiveWeekMarriedRefuseBizarreBuddy Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.” GivingTryingMeanIdeasSportsLeaderFiveLandWasteFishingPoundsTroutTrout Fishing Author:Cornelia Parker
“I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.” TryingYearsKindFeelingsFoundStuffActingAudienceFiveMagicCardsFive YearsShakesCoinsGigsFive Year OldsGood LivingCobwebs Author:Steve Valentine
“I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.” WayTryingUseFiveMonthsSavedControlledAggressiveAggression Author:Andre Nel
“You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you dont have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when youve finished, nothings changed. Youve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.” IfsTryingStillsFightingLostCan DoLosesRoomsBreakFiveChangedFinishedNegativityThings ChangeLockersLocker RoomTry Your Best Author:Rafael Nadal
“I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.” WritingTryingYearsTwoPlayThreeGamesHoursMorningFiveFourWeekClubsBridgesTournamentsDuplicate Author:Louis Sachar
“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayTryingI CanDreamMightProcessDealsBrainFiveInformationConceptsSensesSequenceReferringFive Senses Author:Amy Hardie
“Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.” TryingYearsFiveTeacherMoodRuinsFive YearsSixtyFive Year OldsCondomRecurringCucumbers Book:Ranting Again Source: Ranting Again
“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.” KnowsTryingMindShowsAgeSexKnow HowFiveWeekCrazyPeriodsDrinkSickAidsPerformingMeatRestaurantsVegetarianStarvingFast FoodAbstinenceHaving SexEyeballsFast Food Restaurants Author:Michael Stipe
“Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.” ThinkingFeelsTryingCertainLanguageFiveSensesLove And Friendship Author:Colin Farrell
“You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.” IfsThinkingWantTryingLittlesStillsLastsFiveProudDirectorsCastsGuaranteesMassiveBe Proud Author:Robert Pattinson
“Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.” WritingTryingEnoughHoursFiveToo MuchFourThousandSession Author:Robert Harris
“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsMadeTwoWholeFiveTeacherNormalSightDown AndUniversityContactWonderland Author:Margaret Atwood
“My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.” KnowsTryingYearsNightFiveMinutesTwentiesResponseDamnFive YearsEvery NightEmbarrassedMake You HappyTwenty Five Author:Ric Flair
“When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.” PeopleTryingFirstsLongTwoStoriesPassionRealizingFiveMinutesCrewFive MinutesGreat PeopleGood StoryBakersBlakeAmanda Author:Michiel Huisman
“As a kid, I would do all of the plays at my school, and I was notorious for being in five numbers in one show. I'd go onstage, run backstage for a wardrobe change, and then go back out onstage. I'm always trying to do more than I should but when I got my lucky break (or whatever it's called), I was prepared because I studied and worked really hard for it.” ShouldTryingHardPlayShowsRunningKidsSchoolNumbersBreakFiveLuckyPreparedAlways TryingWardrobeNotoriousLucky Breaks Author:Chrissie Fit
“Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.” TryingYearsKindnessVirtueFiveHundredYears AgoBasesTwentiesWho We AreReachingSpokesReach OutAlways TryingTwenty FiveLaosLao Tzu Author:Wayne Dyer
“I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.” WayWantTryingLooksIdeasAbleFiveMinutesShelvesContestsFive MinutesSupermarketsCarts Author:George Lucas
“But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.” WayTryingTwoDifferentThreeFiveSceneInstinctShootingDifferent WaysKeep GoingRehearsalTrust Your Instincts Author:Kevin Kline
“I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there, it's part of the story usually. You have to deal with the elements. You have the sunshine, you have rain, you have fog - it really makes you work harder to try to match things during the day to make it look like it was shot within five minutes, movie time.” ThinkingTryingLooksStoriesDealsFiveMinutesHard WorkElementsShotsRainHarderSunshineCheatLocationFogFive MinutesWork HarderCinematographers Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.” IfsFeelsTryingMeanI CanHomeHoursFiveSittingWork OutCyclingFeels Right Author:Magnus Backstedt
“I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.” WorldTryingPersonsImportantNextCasesFiveMinutesTreatsCourtFive Minutes Author:Steven Pacey
“It was a long road [trying to get pregnant a secong time]. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.” IfsThinkingTryingMorningIssuesFiveDoctorsHillsTestedBeverly HillsNutritionistAcupunctureTrying Everything Author:Kim Kardashian
“I think of myself as still being about five. Maybe that's why my Twitter picture is of me at five. That's how I feel. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. I'm just still trying to figure it all out about myself.” IfsThinkingFeelsTryingStillsI CanFiveFiguresInspireHonored Author:Demi Moore
“I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.” ThinkingShouldTryingYearsKindChildrenIdeasWantedFeltFivePlansClockFive YearsPrisonerFive Year PlansClock TickingBiological Clock Author:Kristen Stewart
“I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.” ThinkingWantNeedsTryingActorsHoursWalksFiveDignityTreatsCarefulBlockBe CarefulDignity And Respect Author:Robin Tunney
“You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.” IfsWritingTryingBookAbleFiveDecidedRapThemeSubconscious Author:Bun B
“The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."” WayTryingDifferentCountryEyeFiveCommunicationDepthHungerDataDifferent WaysBritainCanadaAustraliaSurveillanceNsaNew ZealandGreat BritainEthosSnowden Author:Laura Poitras
“Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.” PeopleTryingYearsHomeLastsFiveIndependentFive YearsDisabledYears Of LifeLast Five Years Author:Katy Butler
“I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.” WritingTryingYearsSongEnjoyFiveBlessedFive YearsWriting SongsFive Year Olds Author:Smokey Robinson
“I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.” TryingYearsI CanCreativeFiveMonthsFantasticComposingCreative Work Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good.” IfsWritingTryingI CanHappensSongPerfectFiveMinutesDown AndFinishedFive Minutes Author:Leon Russell
“If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.” IfsFeelsTryingHappensSoundHoursFivePiecesDragCraveFrequencyMoldFeels Right Author:Arca
“As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.” IfsKnowsWantTryingI CanDifferentHouseMillionsFiveMinutesMirrorsBunchFive MinutesNew YorkersObsessing Author:Natasha Lyonne
“The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.” IfsTryingPersonsStillsEnemyFiveAliveMinutesWorstArmyFive MinutesFiringStumble UponMedics Author:Brendan Fehr