Trying Quotes - Page 431

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.