#tryin

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#allies #came #deal #decade #early

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. ↗

— Mark Twain

#adversity #another #easily #endure #i

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#come #conversation #especially #funny #great

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. ↗

— Todd Barry

#am #dennis #dennis miller #guess #i

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#good #just #kisser #kissing #like

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#cannot #full #i #i am #material

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#claws #glass #hung #i #i love

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#creative #did #distance #door #find

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#comic #comic strip #cranking #i #keep

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#branded #cheap #either #executive #expense