#tryin

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 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

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#alone #americanism #changed #edison #entrepreneurial

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. ↗

— Martha Beck

#anxiety #anything #associated #focused #future

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#analyzer #bring #could #i #i am

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#after #given #giving #honestly #indifferent