#tryin

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark. ↗

— Melissa Andrea

#fear #fears #inspiring #see #seeing

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#english #haunted #holds #i #jokes

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. ↗

— Mike Myers

#europe #me #middle-aged #people #trying

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. ↗

— Joshua Nkomo

#i #join #just #spirits #trying

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out! ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#ever #get #i #out #since

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation. ↗

— Doug Ose

#counsel #effectively #legislation #legislative #only

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#because #body #cycle #even #get

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#deceive #decisions #got #i #i think

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for? ↗

— Marla Maples

#doing #go #i #look #old