#trying

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#any #better #busy #calm #children

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean? ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#happen #i #know #make #mean

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#enjoying #i #many #nature #same

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#club #end #english #foot #footballers

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#finish #going #lifetime #make #newspaper

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#city #during #especially #first #going

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#believe #continue #creeds #ground #make

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying. ↗

— Tom Hicks

#draw #even #every #fans #just

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#control #dance #expression #felt #free