Always Trying Quotes - Page 9

• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Missing Someone, Long, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Dresses, Ifs

  Interview with Maximilian Rosenbluth, kmh.gallery. April 2, 2012.

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• I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Interesting, Really True

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• What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Lasts, Wells, Consumers

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• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  Florence Welch

  Queens, Singing, Palaces

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• Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

  Mike Singletary

  Song, Saws, Moments

  "San Francisco coach Mike Singletary gets serious after the pants saga" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Mean, People

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Views, People, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Book, Ghost Stories

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• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Touching, Heartbreaking, Unconventional

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• I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

  Lady Gaga

  Men, Want, Cherish

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• There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Water, Return

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Communication

  "What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results". Book by Howard Edson (p. 184), 2003.

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• Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Giving, Meg

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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  If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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• You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Perfect

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

  Jennifer Estep

  People, Library, Warning

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Crimson Frost”, p.145, Kensington Books

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• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Mind, Firsts

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn't usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together. Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Vintage, Dating, Guy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

  Philip Larkin

  People, Feels, Felt

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• That was ridiculous," I told Dorian, once she'd left. "She's not the kind of person to fall for your flirting." "On the contrary," said Dorian. "She's exactly the kind of person to fall for it. I understand these warrior maids, you know. They live such harsh, cold lives, always trying to keep up with the men... when really, they just need someone to make them feel like a woman. And that, of course, is an area in which I excel. Why, if I'd had ten minutes alone with her—

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Warrior, Flirting

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1331, Zebra Books

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• We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hands, Noise, Firsts

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition with Video (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, p.251, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

  Claudia Gray

  Poor, Danger, Protect

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