Nice Try Quotes

#1. Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!

Jonathan Maberry

#2. I've tried to be a better person ... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried ... "
"Nice try ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#3. The Greeter"
He's not the Reaper, but he does stop by
To say, to everything that's ever lived, "Nice try.

Robert N. Watson

#4. He let go of my wrists and lifted me up against the wall. "Try fucking getting away from me now. Nice try, Tyler, but I told you that I always win.

Jaimie Roberts

#5. Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you.

C.J. Milbrandt

#6. Nice try, sweetheart, but there's no way you're leaving me alone with a barely aware drunk chick. Who knows what she'll accused me of later? This time tomorrow, the cops could show up at my door, and before you know it, I'm rocking an orange jumpsuit, singing "Summer Loving" with a guy named Snake.

Candace Vianna

#7. As soon as there was an answer, he stepped closer to the speaker and said, "Federal agents, ma'am"
"Nice try, asshole

Abigail Roux

#8. To complain is to say in effect; "God, You blew it! You had a chance to meet my expectations, but You couldn't handle it! Nice try, God, close - but not close enough." So complaining definitely injures you and the Lord.

James MacDonald

#9. I know, despite all the gloom and self-doubt that bubbles up from the deep when you get dumped, that you did not represent my last and best chance of a relationship. So, you know. Nice try. Close, but no cigar. See you around.

Nick Hornby

#10. Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try.

Jim Butcher

#11. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...

Christopher Hitchens

#12. I'd tell you nice try, but ... it wasn't.

Cynder

#13. A once-robbed John, it won't remove its wallet from its trousers again until it gets the action it paid for. Nice try, sweet thing. NOT.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

Woody Allen

#16. Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

Craig Biggio

#17. Be wary of a self-professed "nice guy". Anyone who is always going around saying they are "just trying to be nice" are most often, anything but nice. -If you're truly kind and loving, you don't have to "try". It comes naturally.

Miya Yamanouchi

#18. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Paulo Coelho

#19. You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.

Kit Harington

#20. Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed.

Kim Harrison

#21. It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

Karen Carpenter

#22. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

#23. You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.

Katharine McPhee

#24. However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.

Raymond Chandler

#25. My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

Saoirse Ronan

#26. Don't try to nice your way out of this. It's insulting.

Rachel Aaron

#27. I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

Paula Deen

#28. It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

Stellan Skarsgard

#29. I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

Carine Roitfeld

#30. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Simon Sinek

#31. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

C.S. Lewis

#32. and I don't think we can do anything for him. It only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him.

C.S. Lewis

#33. Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Joe Montana

#34. Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

Missy Elliot

#35. I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I understand the importance of it.

Dustin Johnson

#36. When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.

John Donovan

#37. It's nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

Lana Del Rey

#38. That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

Seanan McGuire

#39. The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Jules Shear

#40. [Faith] guides me on everything I do, i ask for guidance, I ask the Lord to give me wisdom when I speak, when I think and I always try to be positive and say nice things and it gives me strength throughout every minute and every day.

Reba McEntire

#41. They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There's an urge to bite the deal.

Sadhguru

#42. I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.

Barbara Fialho

#43. You try to be a nice guy, but girls just have to be stubborn about it. Then they complain chivalry is dead. Screw that.

Becca Ann

#44. Despite her mother, Raven had always been a nice girl. Yes, she would grow up to poison and rampage and try to destroy all happiness, but that was no reason not to be civil.

Shannon Hale

#45. Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Rajneesh

#46. They laugh when they're embarrassed, they cry when they're happy, and they try to choke you to death when you do something nice for them.

Heather Burch

#47. It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?

Vito Acconci

#48. Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.

Sylvia Browne

#49. I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

Sheryl Crow

#50. If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.

Lynsey Addario

#51. I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.

Kevin Barry

#52. I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

Kat Dennings

#53. As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#54. I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

Nina Dobrev

#55. Switchblade," I said. "Nice. I could use one of those."
"That's not enough?" He whispered, pointing at my gun.
"It does the job, if the job us to kill. I need a backup that's not always so lethal."
"You could try getting yourself into fewer situations where you need a weapon.

Kelley Armstrong

#56. It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

Agnes Varda

#57. If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.

Lee Hazlewood

#58. I try to get to the gym at least a few times a week, hopefully more. I also play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can. With all that said, everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Robbie Amell

#59. I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

Mariah Carey

#60. As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

Jim Balsillie

#61. If you don't like nice people, try the ones who aren't nice, and see how you like that!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#62. All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

Margaret Mitchell

#63. People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

Jacob Zuma

#64. It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

Helen Hunt

#65. I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Jack Gleeson

#66. They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

J. Michael Straczynski

#67. The world feeds us a steady diet of it's-okay-if-you-are-a-nice-person sprinkled with a bit of if-you-try-your-hardest and topped with a strong drink of you-meant-well.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#68. Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

Hayley Atwell

#69. I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.

Emma Watson

#70. You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

Morris Chestnut

#71. The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.

Terry Gilliam

#72. I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

Salma Hayek

#73. You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

Michelle Tea

#74. I think sometimes people forget how to be nice to people. I try not to let it get to me.

Charlyne Yi

#75. In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.

Matt Mullenweg

#76. Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.

Jane Goodger

#77. People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

Walter Dean Myers

#78. It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

Bobby Moynihan

#79. It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing ... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?

Joshua Sasse

#80. Don't try to see ahead to the nice bits. Don't try to see ahead to the end. Stay with the present, even if it is not so good. And consider how far you've already come.

Rachel Joyce

#81. I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Evelyn Glennie

#82. I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

Emma Roberts

#83. I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.

Liam Hemsworth

#84. People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.

Veronica Rossi

#85. It doesn't kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it!

Lily Amis

#86. When a female cop pull you over for speeding, to get out of the ticket, talk nice to her, try to flirt or start crying, i bet she will save the ticket for you.

Werley Nortreus

#87. Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

Michael Buble

#88. Now let's make nice with the government before they try to pin us for tax evasion.

J.J. McAvoy

#89. I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

Candice Patton

#90. Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

Calista Flockhart

#91. Now let's try that again. Ask my wife nice, and maybe I'll let you sleep in the same bed as your teeth tonight.

Cindy Gerard

#92. If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it, and I think it's a nice way to work, but I try to do the best I can and write what I like. I don't worry about it.

Randy Newman

#93. We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Barack Obama

#94. She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still - it would have been nice to see Easy try.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#95. Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

James Cook

#96. You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Avril Lavigne

#97. I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.

McCoy Tyner

#98. If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.

Mark Billingham

#99. I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I like spas and nice dinners. I'm not much of a club person. I like to hang on the beach in Malibu.

Charlotte McKinney

#100. We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

Layne Staley