Top 100 Never Tried Quotes
#1. Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.
Fannie Flagg
#2. Better to reach your deathbed with regrets for things done rather than remorses for things never tried.
Alex Morritt
#3. I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
Caio Fonseca
#4. I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried to hide that; I'm not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.
David Cameron
#5. Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.
Cornelia Parker
#6. You will never again be the person who had never tried tacos, because after you try one that person no longer exists. In a way he'll die, and someone new and more experienced will take his place." And
A.J.J. Bourque
#7. If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible.
Polly Whittaker
#8. Never regret the things you have done, only the things you have never tried ~ Unknown Author
#AmWriting Sword fights with a Paranormal twist
Unknown
#9. I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best
Cristiano Ronaldo
#10. He never tried to own me, Brigan. Roen said that Cansrel could never see a beautiful thing without wanting to possess it. But he did not try to possess me. He let me be my own.
Kristin Cashore
#11. I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.
Walter Lantz
#12. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
#13. The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.
Linda Ronstadt
#14. Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat
Tommy Douglas
#15. If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried.
Chloe Thurlow
#16. It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
Anna Kendrick
#17. Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
Annie Besant
#18. I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
Kerry Greenwood
#19. Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Christine Todd Whitman
#20. We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.
Maud Younger
#21. Nico: By the time I drove back home last night, I'd gotten myself under control. I'd reasoned with my hard-on until it finally saw my way. Who knew you could reason with a fucking hard-on. I guess I never tried. I just took care of it, did what it wanted me to.
Vi Keeland
#22. The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
Bud Wilkinson
#23. A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Erasmus Darwin
#24. I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.
Tommy Hilfiger
#25. I hate when people play politics with me; when I have never tried to play politics with anyone. I always try to play fair with everyone. But; karma is still treating me like a bitch. Sometimes I am lucky
Temitope Owosela
#26. I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
Sophia Loren
#27. Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.
Christina Hendricks
#28. I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.
Linda Ronstadt
#29. Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But
Ilona Andrews
#30. The great men of all areas of humanity's activities never tried to be a better version of someone else. They simply brought to the table a full life's cultivation of their particular skill sets, experiences, and passions, and we must do the same.
Chris Matakas
#31. I knew you'd say yes. You're so easy." "You've obviously never tried to get into my pants.
Nick Wilgus
#32. We were friends before." Sort of. We never tried to kill each other.
Amanda Bouchet
#33. I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.
Graham King
#34. I've never tried fatback. Probably 'cause it's called fatback. I don't know which word creeps me out more: fat or back. Why don't they just throw in "hairy" while they're at it? "This is some delicious hairy fatback."
Jim Gaffigan
#35. Aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried to do anything to you ?his armed tighted around her.'he knew the worst thing for me was a world without you
Lois Duncan
#36. I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#37. I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.
George Best
#38. If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
#39. And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I've never tried this, and I don't recommend it.)
Francis Chan
#40. There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)
John C. Maxwell
#41. I have never tried anything psychedelic, but I've always wanted to. Would I be wrapped up in colors, attacked by sounds, filled with insights about worlds I don't even know exist?
Rita Golden Gelman
#42. I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#43. People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?
Igor Eliseev
#44. My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.
Catherine Tate
#45. Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.
Samuel Johnson
#46. Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
Sharon Stone
#48. Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.
Roderick Mackinnon
#49. You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
Yul Vazquez
#50. If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
#51. She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said.
No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#52. I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
Lars Mikkelsen
#53. I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.
Spencer Kayden
#54. I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.
Stan Lee
#55. Yeah, well I've never tried to imagine you before me. Probably because I still wake up every morning and question whether I dreamed you. And when I realize you're my real, it's like winning the lottery every damn day of my life.
Jewel E. Ann
#56. I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.
Edgerrin James
#57. I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.
Astrid Lindgren
#58. Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.
Rachel Vincent
#59. I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I'd never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I can't say I'm greatly excited over lobster still, but I have no doubt as to its taste now, and I don't fear it. I dare say death will be a lobster, too, and I can come to terms with it.
Ray Bradbury
#60. Talking to you is like
like talking to an eel!"
"No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?"
"Not such a waste of time as talking to you!
Georgette Heyer
#61. Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing ...
Don DeLillo
#63. It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.
Fred Rogers
#64. We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Robert M. Hutchins
#66. Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.
Lisa Wingate
#67. I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.
Michael Hutchence
#68. Never be afraid of what happens when you step beyond the borders, Elijah. For you will never know if you have made the right choice or not. You will only feel regret if you never tried."
~Anastasia
Barbara C. Doyle
#69. Never abandon as hopeless something you've never tried.
David Dalglish
#70. There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the [music] file.
Arca
#71. Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic.
Miranda July
#73. Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben-Gurion
#74. Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West
#75. If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
Albert Einstein
#76. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West
#77. Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom . Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.
James Berardinelli
#78. To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer
#79. I've never tried to manipulate my image.
Alan Alda
#80. I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
Ornette Coleman
#81. I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.
Corey Taylor
#82. He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.
Andy Pettitte
#83. I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.
Dolly Parton
#84. I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.
Bernhard Schlink
#85. If I never tried, even if it takes me 20 years to achieve something, then I'd never accomplish anything.
Carolyn R. Tracy
#86. I've never tried to drive my career in any particular direction. I've always been an in-the-moment, live-for-today guy. I've never had a goal, and nearly everything I've done has been an accident. I just play to me, and if I can amuse myself, I consider it a victory.
Doug Stanhope
#87. I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
Dan Stevens
#88. Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.
Malcolm Morley
#89. I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.
Walt Mossberg
#90. I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren
#91. My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.
Robbie Robertson
#92. If you never tried you will never know. Anyway we are going to die why dont we try our best
Zoro
#93. I always looked up to Michael [Jackson] because he was never afraid to just be himself, never tried to be anything that he wasn't.
Justin Bieber
#94. I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
David Blunkett
#95. She is one of those people who have found serenity because they have never tried to dodge suffering.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
#97. Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
Luke Evans
#98. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
#99. I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.
Stephenie Meyer
#100. People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
Sandy Koufax
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