I Keep Trying Quotes

#1. I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

Julia Quinn

#2. It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

E. M. Forster

#3. I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Jack Gleeson

#4. Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. "The Buddha teaches respect for all life." "Oh." She considered this. "Are you a Buddhist?" "No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.

Scott Hawkins

#5. I keep trying to get rid of this thing, but somehow it keeps finding its way back to me. What made you keep it?" "It occurred to me that if I could find the cyborg that fit this foot, it must be a sign we were meant to be together.

Marissa Meyer

#6. I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Christine Vachon

#7. Even the new things that
I less than know,
I keep trying, did again
until perfect.

Alliah "Lenzkie" Tabaya

#8. Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. I want to show an upgraded side of myself at any point. That's why I keep trying.

Kim Myungsoo

#10. I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.

Madeleine Brent

#11. Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.

Dan Jenkins

#12. I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

Roxane Gay

#13. Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Etty Hillesum

#14. Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

Larry Sultan

#15. Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.

Mona Simpson

#16. How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

Derek Raymond

#18. I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

Richard Rodriguez

#19. I ... keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.

Janet Morris

#20. I'm not afraid to do the positive things that I'm doing as long as I keep trying.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#21. I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Richard Pryor

#22. There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#23. How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."
"Bizarre and adorable?"
"Just like you."
"With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"
"Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

Shannon Hale

#24. I keep trying to block it out, but it keeps on coming back.

Jenny Han

#25. No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

Sarah

#26. Charlie said, his voice rising an octave in desperation. "I know it's ridiculous, but I keep trying to rationalise everything and it's driving me crazy. Did you spot that flying horse earlier? I found myself trying to explain it with Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Victor Kloss

#27. I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#28. I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#29. Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.

Luis Tiant

#30. Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

#31. This dull, difficult novel I have brought with me on my trip - I keep trying to read it. I have gone back to it so many times, each time dreading it and each time finding it no better than the last time, that by now it has become something of an old friend. My old friend the bad novel.

Lydia Davis

#32. I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

James Salter

#33. I keep trying, and manage some workmanlike stuff that doesn't require inspiration, and then I check my phone, check my email, go on Facebook. I read other people's posts, make jaunty comments, flitter away the time, profane the time.

Deborah Meyler

#34. I don't know what is the key to SUCCESS that's why i keep trying to find it.

Glenda Radores

#35. I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.

Diane Sawyer

#36. 'Aeric!' Grayson exclaimed, with genuine delight. 'You're not dead yet?'

'Not yet,' Aeric replied, looking pleased with his continued viability. 'But I keep trying. And so do you, I hear!'

L.S. Baird

#37. that amazing row of ab-mountains between hips so narrow even my sweet old Nana would imagine wrapping her legs around them.

Faleena Hopkins

#38. I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

George Soros

#39. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.

Anasazi Foundation

#40. Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

H. Emilie Cady

#41. I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.

Mika Waltari

#42. I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

John Geddes

#43. If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

Lujan Matus

#44. Competition is for the competent.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#45. You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Chris Bauer

#46. The deadliest poison cannot harm you if you do not consume it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#47. There is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Robert Musil

#48. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

#49. I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

Timothy Dalton