As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

I feel like when you're making the album, you can't really see the forest through the trees a little bit about what's about or what you're trying to get across.

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible...

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

I've been just trying to master that same edge that a Tom Brady or Drew Brees has; when he steps into a building, you know he's there.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

I'm just trying to put my feet into different characters and not play the stereotypical type thing, to let me grow as an actor.

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares...

As a teenager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

It's not like I'm in there and not trying to finish fights. I'm hitting these guys as hard as I can in there. I'm trying to do what I have to do in there to get it done without being one of these guys...

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.

I'm the Wi-Fi, so I get everybody connected. I'm trying to let the whole world know that I can keep it connected if you get with me, you know what I'm saying?

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of...

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.