#tryin

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#her #how #i #lake #learned

Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#because #deal #faced #fame #how

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing? ↗

— Emily Procter

#am #ask #crimes #doing #figure

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#get #i #i believe #i believe in #institution

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#again #being #day #ever #get

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#forest #forests #like #more #point

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#get #laughs #trying #understanding #you

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#alliance #cheap #country #else #hands

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#form #i #matter #say #still

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#days #down #early #especially #i