#tryin

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? ↗

— Dave Barry

#bent #earnest #keep #knees #learn

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. ↗

— John Irving

#failing #failure #piggy-sneed #save #saving

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#copland #create #did #feel #had

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later. ↗

— Taylor Nadeau

#guilt #justify #trying #death

I'm just human. Our task is to try. Being a Death Warrior is all in the trying. --DQ ↗

— Francisco X. Stork

#warrior #death

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone-- ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#love #trying #dreams

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#desires #dreams #drive #effort #hope

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#began #being #decent #human #human being

Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants. ↗

— Yuri Andropov

#every #everything #man #soviet #soviet union

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. ↗

— Andy Summers

#avoid #fusion #generic #i #jazz