Lawrence Durrell Quotes

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nothing

• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Young

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Leader
  • First
  • Union

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Know

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a hustler. Sometimes I call her, and I'm like, 'You need to help me hustle,' and she is like, 'Come on!'

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • She
  • Help
  • Hustle

• I had a fear of being alone.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • Fear
  • Alone

• He whom we anatomized‘whose words we gathered as pleasant flowersand thought on his wit and how neatly he described things’speaksto us, hatching marrow,broody all night over the bones of a deadman.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Night
  • Words

• The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • May
  • Reader
  • Fail

• I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Trying
  • Die