#trying

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen. ↗

— Travis Barker

#breaking #going #happen #hard #i

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 am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#cannot #full #i #i am #material

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

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#copyright #i #music #my time #now

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. ↗

— Todd Barry

#am #dennis #dennis miller #guess #i

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#good #just #kisser #kissing #like

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

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