Top 100 Is Like Trying To Sayings
#1. A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
Chris Hardwick
#2. Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#3. Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
Neal A. Maxwell
#4. Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
Josh Billings
#5. Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
Patrice Leconte
#6. Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.
Ruth Downie
#7. To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
Jerome Drayton
#9. Why not?" she asks petulantly. "Give me one good reason we shouldn't." "Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil?" I tell her. "I don't know." "Yes?" she says. "And?" "With braces?" I finish, shrugging.
Bret Easton Ellis
#10. Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.
Sara Nelson
#11. Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.
J. Budziszewski
#12. People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
Martha Gellhorn
#13. Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
Peter Kreeft
#14. But falling for a guy like Grayson Dunn is like trying to wait out a hurricane by taking shelter in the eye of the storm.
Julie Johnson
#15. Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!
Nick Cannon
#16. Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
Mark Twain
#17. Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.
Henry Spencer
#18. Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#19. I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.
Crowder
#20. What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
Paul Kalanithi
#21. To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.
James Fitzjames Stephen
#22. Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met ... <3
Owl City
#23. Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.
Bobby Murcer
#24. The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
W.C. Fields
#25. Trying to be good enough to earn heaven is like trying to jump to Hawaii from the coast of California. Everyone looks like an idiot, some drown, some get three feet, some get ten feet, but no one even gets close to Hawaii.
Jefferson Bethke
#26. Love is like trying to wrestle an albino. It's tough because they're slippery and all lubed up with sunscreen.
Jarod Kintz
#27. [Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.
Francis Collins
#28. Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#29. Trying to influence another person without first establishing a relationship is like trying to boil water outside of a kettle. Trust, like the kettle, is the vessel in which all things work together to generate powerful action
Denis G. McLaughlin
#30. A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
Dean Devlin
#32. Defining him is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.
Anonymous
#33. Living your life without goals and plans is like trying to send a letter to somewhere without adding the correct the address ... The letter may get elsewhere in some days; so your life too goes somewhere else without better goals!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. Sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve.
Jodi Picoult
#35. Measuring yourself against other people's successes is like trying to live their dream, rather than your own. Try
Mac Prichard
#36. Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.
Ernest Rutherford
#37. Trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.
Margo Kaufman
#38. Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle ...
Mooji
#39. Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger."
~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel
M.T. Bass
#40. Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.
Nouman Ali Khan
#41. Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
Daniel R. Scoggin
#42. Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat
it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
Andrew Solomon
#43. Secular conservatism is like trying to use your pocket handkerchief to slow you down after the main chute has failed. This is why individual heart transformation, not legislation, is fundamental to national reformation. The person and work of Jesus is not optional.
Douglas Wilson
#44. Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.
Jeremy Brett
#45. To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#46. Being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing. Think
Lisa Kleypas
#47. Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.
Matt Chandler
#48. CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.
Bob Lutz
#49. Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.
Bruce Schneier
#50. I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.
Ilona Andrews
#51. Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.
Tabitha Suzuma
#52. As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
Joseph Brodsky
#53. Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
Bill Bradley
#54. Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.
Jeremy Clarkson
#55. Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts
Thom Yorke
#56. Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock
#57. Trying to improve your online reputation during a crisis is like trying to eat healthy food during a heart attack.
Andy Beal
#58. She tries to not ask, to stop asking, but the effort is like trying to un-pop a balloon.
Chuck Palahniuk
#59. Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose.
Nigel Hems
#60. Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
Jonathan Haidt
#61. Sneaking Hardman anywhere is like trying to sneak Mikkik into a packed Church. The man is terrifying - especially those teeth and the disgusting pants.
Brian Fuller
#62. Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
J. C. Watts
#63. The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it.
Robin Sacredfire
#64. No amount of wordy explanations will ever lead us into the nature of our own selves. The more you explain, the further it runs away from you. It is like trying to get hold of your own shadow. You run after it and it runs with you at the identical rate of speed.
D.T. Suzuki
#65. To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Lawrence Durrell
#66. Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Sydney Banks
#67. Seeking validation, inner peace, and happiness outside of yourself is like trying to find a bus to take you home when you're already at home. The only source of inner peace and happiness exists within you already.
Derek Doepker
#68. Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!
James Agee
#69. Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
Patricia McCormick
#70. Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.
Mark R. Woodward
#71. Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
Chris Hardwick
#72. Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
A.W. Tozer
#73. Trying to solve complex social problems using the state, is like trying to create a beautiful painting with a machine gun: all you get is holes in the canvas, recoil aches, and a smell of cordite in the air.
Stefan Molyneux
#74. Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
Bill Gates
#75. Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Alane Adams
#76. Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.
Richard Doll
#77. Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
Bodhidharma
#78. BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent ... yet completely humbling.
Phillipe Nover
#79. It is like trying to stop a runaway train with one hand tied behind my back.
Katherine Allred
#80. Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
Matt Chandler
#81. Because I've died many deaths, mostly over you, and I'm still alive. Trying to have a relationship with you is like trying to rescue someone from Hades. Only a fool would keep going back to get a woman who fights him every step of the way.
Colleen Houck
#82. But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill ...
Ian McEwan
#83. Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
Ben Bagdikian
#84. TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
Jenny Holzer
#85. Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.
Jaron Lanier
#86. Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.
Edward Fiske
#87. [He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry M. Goldwater
#88. To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
Edmund Burke
#89. Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
Godfrey Reggio
#90. Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.
Brent Weeks
#91. Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
Philippe Kahn
#92. Discovering the laws of physics is like trying to put together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. We
Richard Feynman
#93. Trying to make her angry is like trying to find a corner on a bowling ball.
Craig McLay
#94. If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing.
Lisa Kleypas
#95. Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
Jamie Zawinski
#96. Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns
#97. We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
Vernon Howard
#98. Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married.
Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil? With braces?
Bret Easton Ellis
#99. Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender
Guy Finley
#100. Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
Louise Caiola
