Trying To Find Quotes

#1. My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit of bounce.

Laura Enever

#2. There was nothing: just an empty, dark tunnel he was supposed to plod his way through, from "Birth" station to "Death" station. Those looking for faith had simply been trying to find the side branches in this line. But there were only two stations, and only tunnel connecting them.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#3. The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Bette Midler

#4. Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.

Candace Bushnell

#5. I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Sylvester Stallone

#6. I'm glad that the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country. I'm glad that activity is going on, but it is limited to tracking people who are suspected to be terrorists and who they may be talking to ... Yes, I am sure that that's what they're doing.

Lindsey Graham

#7. What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Stephen King

#8. I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

Jeremy Camp

#9. If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.

Holly Black

#10. Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

Morley Baer

#11. Instead, he cleared his throat, removed himself from Avery's hold and tucked himself back inside his slacks, trying to find some control. It was a monumental experience to have finally given your heart away so freely, especially to someone you didn't know. The whole experience unnerved Kane.

Kindle Alexander

#12. Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

Natalie Massenet

#13. This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

Gareth Roberts

#14. I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

Mario Testino

#15. I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.

Geena Davis

#16. I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Robert Ludlum

#17. I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.

Surya Das

#18. For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker

Alan Dean Foster

#19. In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

Kiese Laymon

#20. Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

Barbara Mikulski

#21. I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it ... I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

William Jennings Bryan

#22. We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

Cornel West

#23. Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation.
"Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle."
"I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.

John Flanagan

#24. My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

James Salter

#25. Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

Matthew Carter

#26. It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny movie, but then I let my mind go. I get lost sometimes in the writing, trying to find some special zones. That's the excitement of making a movie.

Quentin Dupieux

#27. When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

Cher

#28. I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

Rami Malek

#29. If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

Alexa Vega

#30. I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing.

Lisa Kessler

#31. I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

Dave Barry

#32. What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home.

Seth Adam Smith

#34. I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

Wes Anderson

#35. The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Patrick Dempsey

#36. It's much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.

Natalie Goldberg

#37. That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

George Carlin

#38. The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn't true. There's only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves.

David Vann

#39. I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts ...

Ian Christe

#40. Then again, maybe we're all a little broken and just trying to find the glue that'll hold us together.

Dannika Dark

#41. What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal ... the kind that's always existed ... No. They couldn't care less about that.

Pablo Picasso

#42. There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

Jeff Douglas

#43. Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

Thom Yorke

#44. I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.

Augusten Burroughs

#45. I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Daniel Keyes

#46. I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

Euan Uglow

#47. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Sarah Addison Allen

#48. Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

Kobe Bryant

#49. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#50. I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

John Stamos

#51. 'Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about the human relationships between characters and the strain that things can put on them. It's also a little bit of a social commentary piece, because it covers very timely issues.

Avan Jogia

#52. I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Conor Oberst

#53. I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used

Alexander Stepanov

#54. I'm trying to find out where we are going. Olivia. I already know you love me." I glared up at him in shock and he shrugged. "The fact that you can't say it - is a problem. I love you.

Tarryn Fisher

#55. When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.

Eric Wareheim

#56. But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though trying to find the cause of her suffering.

Gustave Flaubert

#57. Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.

Dave McKean

#58. If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing. AMY:

Hanya Yanagihara

#59. I'm trying to find some piece of myself that is truly me, a part that I would be willing to wear like a jewel around my neck.

A.M. Homes

#60. Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?

Mindy Kaling

#61. When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#62. Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.

Joshua Radin

#63. There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

Walter Dean Myers

#64. The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

Djimon Hounsou

#65. I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to
prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe
thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

Brandon Sanderson

#66. You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

Rachel Joyce

#67. Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

#68. In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

Robert Penn Warren

#69. As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

Corey Taylor

#70. Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Simon Kuznets

#71. We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here ... Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It's a trick for setting aside your to-do list, if only for a few moments, and actually locate a feeling of fulfilment in the present

Sam Harris

#72. I'm trying to find a way to say I want it to be more than sex. I have feelings for you that go way past sexual.

Christina Lauren

#73. You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Hamilton Leithauser

#74. I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

Shannyn Sossamon

#75. They said even in the storm we'll find some lights, So here I am trying to find my own light in my stormy days.

Karla M. Nashar

#76. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

Ernest Gaines

#77. 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

#78. A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

Kieran Culkin

#79. We all have something to offer. It's so important to be able to step out of our comfort zone and share the benefit of our experience with others who are trying to find their way. You can make a real difference and have real impact. I haven't experienced anything more satisfying than that.

David Gregory

#80. In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

Darrell Issa

#81. Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.

Jonathan Goldstein

#82. I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

Bonnie Langford

#83. Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Gregg Harper

#84. For the longest time I was just trying to find someone to love as much as I loved you, but now I realize that's never going to happen ...

Manthan Jariwala

#85. 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

Anna Kendrick

#86. It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Jewel

#87. I guess when you're trying to find all the parts of yourself, it's difficult to be with someone who's already fully intact.

Cecelia Ahern

#88. When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

Jackie Vernon

#89. I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

Celeste Ng

#90. I don't know what is the key to SUCCESS that's why i keep trying to find it.

Glenda Radores

#91. I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

T.D. Jakes

#92. The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Aries Spears

#93. I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

Craig Venter

#94. It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to find the damn words to write one.

Robert Newman

#95. I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Paula Cole

#96. Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Ornette Coleman

#97. Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

Bodhidharma

#98. I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

Emanuel Ax

#99. I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

Emma McLaughlin

#100. There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

Ty Segall