Quotes About Trying To Keep It Together

#1. The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

Andrew Bird

#2. I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

Kristen Wiig

#3. If the sun could do all the work by itself
there would be no need for stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Albert Camus

#5. Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair]-Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Alastair Campbell

#6. Stevie Kosgrov punched me just like I was a regular, normal kid

James Patterson

#7. It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

Randy West

#8. John was the ne'er-do-well father, Paul was the hardworking mother trying to keep everything together. George was a slightly surly teenager, and Ringo was this happy-go-lucky young kid with his model airplane. That's really how it was.

Ray Connolly

#9. I peeled off my right sleeve, trying not to irritate the wound any more than necessary. My hands were trembling, either from fear or adrenaline, and just bending my arm made me want to scream. I bit my lips together to keep the sound in, but even with that my muffled whimpers escaped into the night.

Kiera Cass

#10. I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.

Joan Crawford

#11. Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

Harry Partch

#12. 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

#13. The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence to try some more. Gathering these stories together was fun, but I realized when I read them that I have certain mental preoccupations and they keep recurring in my stories.

Arthur Bradford

#14. Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#15. I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding, and failing, and succeeding.

David Levithan

#16. We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

Helen Fisher

#17. I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kendall Jenner

#18. We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.

Garry Breitkreuz

#19. She was held together by a thread. Not even a strong fishing wire, but the kind of thread that could fray and break in the wind. A thread that could unravel at any moment, scattering and smashing all the pieces of her that she as trying desperately to keep together.

R.L. Griffin

#20. Somewhere in the back of every child's conscious, lies the teaching of Spiritual Guidance, when it has been taught.

Ellen J. Barrier

#21. most people just consider her to be a twenty-one-year-old girl without a major, a partner, or any life plans. People keep trying to force this idea on her that if she doesn't get her life together before her thirties, she will be useless to the world.

M. Hollis

#22. You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs.

Augusten Burroughs

#23. Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

Jeff Garcia

#24. You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

Robert McChesney

#25. It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

Juicy J

#26. The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Plutarch

#27. One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Sean Wilentz

#28. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

#29. So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvres.

Wislawa Szymborska

#30. I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.

Channing Tatum