Didn't Work Out Quotes

#1. S they sat, him on the sofa and her in a chair, she added, "I know you enjoy coffee, I'd offer you some. But, the last time I got you coffee, it didn't work out so well for me."
Tony smirked, "God, Claire you're something else. I can't imagine anyone else joking about that.

Aleatha Romig

#2. I wanted to be a part of the first 'Twilight' movie, and unfortunately, it didn't work out so great. So when they came back and were like, 'Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,' I was like, 'Absolutely.'

Jamie Campbell Bower

#3. I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.

Denise Van Outen

#4. You know why it didn't work out with him?" "Why?" "Because God made you for me." Not

Penelope Ward

#5. I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

Beth Ditto

#6. One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.

Sarah Stillman

#7. Claire to Tony: I know you enjoy coffee, I'd offer you some. But, the last time I got you coffee, it didn't work out so well for me.

Aleatha Romig

#8. So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

Gavin DeGraw

#9. I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm happy in my space as a composer.

Pritam Chakraborty

#10. First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn't work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn't help, but it cost a lot of money, so she tried Buddhism and yoga, and those didn't work, so she started drinking. I think that helped, because she's still drinking.

John Sandford

#11. I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#12. I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Queen Latifah

#13. I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

Tom Rush

#14. I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening.

Alonzo Bodden

#15. I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.

Junior Seau

#16. We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#17. What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

Ben Folds

#18. I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

Tom Smothers

#19. I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.

Elijah Wood

#20. My wife and I got remarried. Our divorce didn't work out.

Henny Youngman

#21. Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Joel Osteen

#22. Hope reliably triumphs over experience. It's always very tempting to console ourselves with an apparently very reasonable thought: the reason it didn't work out this time was not that the expectations were too high, but that we directed them onto the wrong person. We

The School Of Life

#23. We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Colin Powell

#24. Recklessness didn't work out for me in the end."
- Sand dan Glokta

Joe Abercrombie

#25. Well, I'll be honest with you, sometimes you don't know you're playing a moment that's going to be in a montage. Sometimes it's a scene that didn't work out the way you hoped it would be and ends up in a montage.

Mark Duplass

#26. But I looked over at him, with his substitute math teacher glasses and hopeful expression, and my smile faded. He hadn't learned yet that things didn't work out just because you wanted then to.

Morgan Matson

#27. Today I tried to pick up something I was standing on. It didn't work out well.

Peter James West

#28. Maybe, but we're the same, Liis. That's why it didn't work out with other people. I'm not going to let you run away, and you're not going to put up with my shit.

Jamie McGuire

#29. There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past.

Ciara

#30. I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.

Uma Thurman

#31. Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.

Abbey Clancy

#32. The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

#33. Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.

Joyce Meyer

#34. I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.

Tim Hudson

#35. Redhead, built in a way made you sure God's a man." "It didn't work out between you?" "For a while it did. She wasn't shy about using what she had. She wasn't shy about anything," Doyle added with a grin.

Nora Roberts

#36. But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out.

Kim Culbertson

#37. I gave him everything and it didn't work out. He didn't love me.

Jaci Burton

#38. I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

Damon Galgut

#39. It's like the specter of segregation has brought the city of Dickens back together again." I decided to give my new career as City Planner in Charge of Restoration and Segregation another six months. If things didn't work out, I could always fall back on being black.

Paul Beatty

#40. I didn't really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true calling would be representing New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, and if that didn't work out, I could always fall back on becoming an Olympic pole vaulter.

Chelsea Handler

#41. One relationship didn't work out, but that doesn't mean relationships never work out. One single experience isn't representative of all of them.

Sarah Morgan

#42. I was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.

Rajon Rondo

#43. What happened?"
"I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn't work out."
"The world ain't set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind.
Messes up the natural order, otherwise.

Carolee Dean

#44. Don't live worried, frustrated or upset because of what somebody did or what didn't work out. Come back to a place of peace. It's not going to work against you; it's going to work for you.

Joel Osteen

#45. I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.

Hulk Hogan

#46. U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

Alan Grayson

#47. You've got me confused with one of those women who needs a ring on her finger to feel complete. I don't put those kinds of expectations on men. And I'd say I'm sorry things didn't work out between you and Hugh, but based on your current amount of crazy, I'd say he dodged a bullet.

Kristen Painter

#48. If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

John Baldessari

#49. I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

Joss Whedon

#50. Because if it didn't work out, I didn't want to blow the whole day.

Paul Hornung

#51. I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

Allen West

#52. Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.

Bud Grant

#53. The Boston Globe is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry used to date actress Morgan Fairchild but it didn't work out. Apparently she couldn't handle dating someone with bigger hair then she had.

Jay Leno

#54. Just because you believed and it didn't work out your way or according to your timetable, does not mean that it's over.

Jamie Larbi

#55. I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

David Hasselhoff

#56. I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Anne Rice

#57. I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.

Curt Schilling

#58. In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I'd make it to the Supreme Court. That didn't work out the way I planned.

Lloyd Blankfein

#59. I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

Charles Van Doren

#60. You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

John Corbett

#61. The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

Robert James Waller

#62. I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

John Carmack

#63. I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

Danny Pudi

#64. I was going to have Brian La Croix do a cameo on Degrassi. But, unfortunately, the scheduling didn't work out. When I was in Toronto, they weren't shooting. To me, that would've been a pretty crazy meta experience.

Nick Kroll

#65. I'm a bit down. Liza Minelli and David Gest, I don't know how it didn't work out. How can a man who likes other men and a woman who drinks not get along? The interesting thing is this - there is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minelli.

Jon Stewart

#66. Sometime soon someone is going to walk into your life, and you'll understand just why your previous relationships didn't work out.

Steven Aitchison

#67. The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.

Hill Harper

#68. That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and strained for our ability to haul ass. Jerks.

Jim Butcher

#69. The old dreams were good dreams; the didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.

Robert James Waller

#70. If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

Bette Davis

#71. When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.

Ben Schwartz

#72. After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

Idina Menzel

#73. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

Amanda Seyfried

#74. If you made something and it didn't work out, let it go. Remember that you're nothing but a beginner - even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go. Forget

Elizabeth Gilbert

#75. That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.

Richard Simmons

#76. I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Merritt Wever

#77. I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

John Carpenter

#78. We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

Jaime Pressly

#79. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Shain

#80. Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.

Eric Idle

#81. I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

Sasha Alexander

#82. I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.

Jesse Williams

#83. Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

Brody Armstrong

#84. I thought suddenly Look. If Kambei had stopped recruiting when the first samurai didn't work out a 205-minute masterpiece of modern cinema would have been over at minute 32.

Helen DeWitt

#85. Just because we didn't work out as a couple didn't mean we couldn't work together, right?

Alice Clayton

#86. I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.

Chris Stapleton

#87. To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

Billy Campbell

#88. When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#89. Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

Thomas Keating

#90. Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Kurt Browning

#91. I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived in Aspen. I'll work for the 'New York Times' when I live in New York.' It didn't work out that way.

Darin Strauss

#92. One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.

Tina Brown

#93. The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should ... ' I just kept going.

Ashley Monroe

#94. Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

Astro Teller

#95. A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe ... it's you!

Karrine Steffans

#96. I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream - to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too.

Bill Maher

#97. We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

Joe

#98. There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Darren Aronofsky

#99. My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

Charlene Tilton

#100. I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

Dominic Chianese