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Trying Quotes by Richard Siken
- You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're…
- Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent…
- Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out…
- This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have…
- Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is…
- You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash