#trying

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross! ↗

— Hilary Duff

#ate #away #bug #flying #get

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#deal #feelings #find #images #intense

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#forever #guided #idea #knowledge #last

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ↗

— Dave Blood

#control #energy #fool #get #how

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#die #difficult #i #know #trying

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers. ↗

— David Duval

#anything #behind #entertainers #hiding #i

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#destroying #far #go #how #how far

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#chip #collective #continue #countries #destruction

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

#big success #conscious #create #follow #gets