#try

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. ↗

— Buddy Holly

#beauty #i #interested #language #stump

All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”). Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”. Thus, all war is based in metaphor. All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry. Poetry (since indefinable) is the sense of seduction. Therefore, all war is the storytelling of seduction, and seduction is the nature of war. ↗

— Pola Oloixarac

#poetry #seduction #war #art

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year. ↗

— Tom Holt

#every #every day #i #try #words

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#available #been #bread #doing #eat

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. ↗

— Homer

#brave #brave man #cause #country #draws

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#anything #autobiography #else #footnote #his

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#else #everything #follow #i #just

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#going #happen #mom #perfect #trying

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#because #controls #country #courses #forces

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#also #better #better place #conservative #could