#trying

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#called #climb #compete #could #faster

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#both #corner #done #ends #here

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way. ↗

— Brian Eno

#fit #hitting #interesting #interesting way #me

America's trying to do the best for its veterans. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#best #trying #veterans

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#growing #growing up #harlem #latino #spanish

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral. ↗

— James Bovard

#attention #attention deficit #combination #death #deficit

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#agree #always #attorney #because #character

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#american film #brick #brick wall #british #business

To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to. ↗

— Tom Brady

#comes #confident #date #down #get