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Trying Quotes (page 67)

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now? and we're going to try our... Sinclair Lewis
William S. Burroughs quote: "here lies a stupid son of a bitch who tried to make Death a..."
here lies a stupid son of a bitch who tried to make Death a company cop William S. Burroughs
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought). Jean Rhys
The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud out of the path.'We were just talking about your friend Hagrid,'Malfoy said to Ron. 'Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. D'you think he'll cry when they cut off his hippogriff's-'SPLAT.Malfoy's head jerked back as the mud hit him; his silverblond hair was suddenly dripping in muck. J. K. Rowling
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling. Vladimir Nabokov
I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all. Barbara Pym
Justin Bieber quote: "No matter how much I try, I cant figure out how to not be..."
No matter how much I try, I cant figure out how to not be adorable! Justin Bieber
Neil Gaiman quote: "The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break..."
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. Neil Gaiman
I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border. James Dickey
Why don't you use some sense and try to be more like me? You might live to be a hundred and seven, too." "Because it’s better to die on one’s feet than live on one’s knees,” Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty conviction. “I guess you’ve heard that saying before.” “Yes, I certainly have,” mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. “But I’m afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one’s feet than die on one’s knees. That is the way the saying goes.” “Are you sure?” Nately... Joseph Heller
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. Herman Melville
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. Kazuo Ishiguro
James Patterson quote: "We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the..."
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts. James Patterson
I'm trying to keep" he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him"my promise!"I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming."When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree? Stephenie Meyer
David Sedaris quote: "In trying to be memorable, you wind up sounding unspeakably queer"
In trying to be memorable, you wind up sounding unspeakably queer David Sedaris

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