My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Thom Gunn

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
David Herbert Lawrence

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
Goldwin Smith

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
Margaret Young

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Maureen Dowd

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
George Ade

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Al Goldstein

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Maxwell Bodenheim

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
Leonard Maltin