#tryin

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ↗

— Alice Walker

#bouquets #dance #ever #everything #except

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. ↗

— Brian Walker

#earth #elevator #i #i am #minutes

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else. ↗

— Ray Walston

#build #career #else #hands #i

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#confronting #courageously #denial #escape #find

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life. ↗

— John Walters

#go #kids #know #later #life

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#back #because #forward #happened #hard

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. ↗

— Chris Ware

#austin #blood #change #could #delivering

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. ↗

— Chris Ware

#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible. ↗

— Chris Ware

#clear #get #getting #i #line

I am just trying to keep it real. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#i #i am #just #keep #real