All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.
If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.
If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.
"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.
In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.
I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance. . . produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward. . . allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.