#attempts

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #big #brought #contemporary #create

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had

All sins are attempts to fill voids. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fill #sins

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #before #chariot #different #different people

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#colony #disappear #earlier #reason #some

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#attempts #attention #even #get #later

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless. ↗

— Allen Klein

#any #attempts #deemed #humor #immediately

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. ↗

— Eric Gill

#analytical #attempts #bread #descriptive #does