Trying Quotes - Page 297

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalism - a partly conservative approach and actually trying to put women in a more traditional role. And we have to resist that.

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not want somebody to be thinking they knew me based on that. It's like even private citizens have to deal with this persona phenomenon.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

I'm trying to find out what the hell we - who we are.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.