#tryin

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results. ↗

— Caskie Stinnett

#could #dislodge #enterprise #federal #into

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can. ↗

— George Strait

#best way #change #change the world #country #country music

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts. ↗

— George Strait

#album #counts #doing #end #end result

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. ↗

— George Strait

#bit #bug #gave #had #idea

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. ↗

— George Strait

#circle #haggard #here #i #jones

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#extreme #get #i #intense #kind

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#book #clean #fail #failed #get

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#i #openness #things #trying #two

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #good #literature #literature-quotes #poetry