#trie

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#anything #around #balcony #blowing #bottle

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#everything #growing #growing up #had #i

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#before #friends #had #hadn #hanging

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. ↗

— Alan Arkin

#analyze #certain #certain things #did #eight

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bites #get #hard #i #i think

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#bad #build #company #dayton #democratic

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#achieving #anything #because #ever #i

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#i #i tried #picked #racket #tennis

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#am #bury #coffin #daily #depths

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. ↗

— Milton Avery

#blowing #changing #colors #drama #fantasy