Straining Quotes

I`ve found that the majority of my work is just a series of grunting, groaning and straining noises. Because, you know, Superman is forever getting clobbered with force fields, nuclear weapons, trains -- whatever large, blunt, heavy objects are at hand to clobber him. I have to dig deep for those special noises.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

I wasn`t straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.