Quotes by Trying Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls. Alice Cooper ballstryinginsanity I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image. Alice Cooper producetryingthinking I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then. Alice Cooper appreciatetryingthinking We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us. Alice Cooper involvedproductstrying Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. Alice Duer Miller slavetryingpeople Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. Alice Hoffman fatemattertrying As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader will find something of it when the work is complete. But I do try to figure out where in their experiences certain characters of mine, who are not necessarily readers, and certainly not writers or artists, find an equivalent sensation: of delight, of astonishment, of whatever it is that briefly - and brevity seems essential - reassures us, connects us, sends a shiver of inarticulate recognition down our spines: Oh, yes: life. Alice McDermott artisttryingcharacter The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible. Alice Miller childhoodwishtrying The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world. Alice Munro tragedytryingbelieve There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that. Alice Munro storieswritingtrying When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one?" If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try. Alice Munro phonestryingthinking We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music. Alice Nutter bandmothertrying She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief. Alice Sebold griefparenttrying I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined. Alice Sebold smarttryingbeautiful Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about. Alice Sebold tryingbookthinking I try to take care of myself, and I lead a healthy lifestyle. Alice Temperley healthycaretrying I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have. Alice Walker literaturehearttrying You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going? Alice Walker journeyskytrying So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart. Alice Walker worryhearttrying Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Alice Walker purplewanttrying«2223242526272829303132»
