#tryin

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#cake #despair #difference #entitled #equally

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#fellow #his #holding #inherently #life

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? ↗

— Rick Danko

#better #better place #changing #changing the world #doing

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#christians #decades #evil #exterminate #give

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#democratic #democratic party #far #go #gone

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#appearance #astonishing #been #chance #extraordinary

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#i #prolong #shall #them #trying

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#any #audience #because #broadway #broadway shows

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing. ↗

— John Foster

#american #combine #curious #direct #directors