Top 100 Tried Quotes
#1. I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
Douglas Coupland
#2. I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!
Johnny Depp
#3. I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#4. And although he tried every day to remember the promise he'd made to her, every day it became more and more remote, until it was just a memory, and so was she, a beloved character from a book he'd read long ago.
Hanya Yanagihara
#5. There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
Ethel Merman
#6. Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say.
Tommy Wallach
#7. Pfft." Dad turned to her. "What do you know about picking
husbands? Last time you tried that, you got stuck with me."
She smiled and hit his arm.
"You two are so gross, you ruin everything." I spun and headed
toward the door.
Kiera Cass
#8. I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.
Randy Shilts
#9. I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just because a woman has thick thighs, she is considered fat. For so long, I've been around in the modeling world and have tried to break that barrier. But I think now it's turning around.
Coco Austin
#10. The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.
Michael Craig-Martin
#11. I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.
Joss Whedon
#12. Never regret the things you have done, only the things you have never tried ~ Unknown Author
#AmWriting Sword fights with a Paranormal twist
Unknown
#13. I kill the living to make way for the dead.
But we had hot chocolate, she and I. We tried to make our friendship last as long as we could.
Then I was forced to let her go. I held her when she returned to the earth.
R.A. Parry
#14. God, this guy is a harassment lawsuit wearing a fake Rolex. If he ever tried that with some of the hardcore gamer girls out in The Belly, he'd be toast.
Ernie Lindsey
#15. No thanks," I answered, "I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.
John Zakour
#16. 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
#17. Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
Steven Heighton
#18. The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp.
Bonnie D. Ford
#19. If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible.
Polly Whittaker
#20. If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead,
He goes astray.
But if he follows, he finds guidance.
It is favourable to find friends in the West and South,
and quiet perseverance brings good fortune.
Pearl S. Buck
#21. The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Rush Limbaugh
#22. Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.
Dave DeBronkart
#23. Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
Brent Weeks
#24. When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
Pat Conroy
#25. There was something about succeeding at what you tried, especially when people needed your talent. Okay, so that talent happened to be illegal breaking and entering, but hey, there wasn't much I was good at, so success felt good nonetheless.
Kalayna Price
#26. She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking
Dan Brown
#27. I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
Penelope Cruz
#28. 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
#29. Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
Dick Dale
#30. The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey
#31. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#32. I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
Romeo Dallaire
#33. I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
Toby Young
#34. If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.
Sarah J. Maas
#35. Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.
Rebecca Stead
#36. He tried not to think about the consequences of a failure. Tried not to think about the fact that he still held Beldre hostage. Tried not to worry about the fact that
Brandon Sanderson
#37. "I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window.
Carey Rockwell
#38. The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.
Dave Barry
#39. I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
Maria Bartiromo
#40. I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.
Ross Macdonald
#41. News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
Leslie Moonves
#42. He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.
Pete Hamill
#43. I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
David Hilbert
#44. No man controlled his fate, a knowledge that came late in life. You just tried to muddle along from one point to another, making as few mistakes as possible.
Tom Clancy
#45. What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried.
Albert Fish
#46. I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
Dennis Quaid
#47. Jake had begun to carry chalk in his pockets, also. He wrote brief sentences. He tried to word them so that a man would think.
Carson McCullers
#48. We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio ...
Walt Disney
#49. I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
India De Beaufort
#50. I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.
Fedor Bondarchuk
#51. I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.
Megan McCafferty
#52. I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
Ani DiFranco
#53. I hate to say stuff like this because everyone dreams about playing The Opry, everyone dreams about playing Gruene Hall, but I've always tried to not concentrate too hard on where I want to go because I know if I put too much stock into it, it would be pretty disappointing if I never got there.
Cody Johnson
#54. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.
E. M. Forster
#56. In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81)
David N. Elkins
#57. I knew it would annoy her. She'd deliberately tried to provoke me, and one cannot sass me with impunity.
Kevin Hearne
#58. Will I be remembered as the man who protected mankind from a powerful evil? Or, will I be remembered as a tyrant who arrogantly tried to make himself a legend?
Brandon Sanderson
#59. Emma followed his gaze to the brightly painted stand where people competed to see who could toss a plastic ring and land it around the neck of one of a dozen lined-up bottles. She tried not to feel superior that this was apparently something mundanes found difficult.
Cassandra Clare
#61. How do you trust a person when they've tried to kill you every second they get?
Me
#62. Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.
Suzanne Somers
#64. Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
Bill Burr
#65. If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it.
Nick Hornby
#66. So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.
Danny McBride
#67. I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
Francoise Sagan
#68. Your heart broke again and again, and you tried to fix the pieces with the salves of the world. But they can only dull the pain; they cannot heal. You have been chained. You've hidden your heart in the dark places. But I came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free.
James L. Rubart
#69. I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run.
Sam Rockwell
#70. You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.
Peter Furler
#71. One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Russell Banks
#72. The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep
Margaret Mead
#73. 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
#74. I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
Emeli Sande
#75. To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.
Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.
Anna Kavan
#76. Jory gripped her chin, turning her to face him. His jaw hardened, and he tried to remain gentle. "Time to make a choice, sweetheart. Please. Choose me.
Rebecca Zanetti
#77. No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours,
George Lucas
#78. Never, never, give in to fear. It is better to have tried and failed than never trying.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. The neighborhood is pretty rough." I rubbed the hair on the back of my neck feeling a little ashamed about that. We tried to keep it as clean as we could but we weren't saints.
"I'm starting to gather that. Thanks, Clay. Night."
"Night."
"You got it bad man.
Shandy L. Kurth
#80. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#81. A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
Sally Schneider
#82. I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.
Miguel Cotto
#83. Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#84. Maybe people could change - even the ones who made the wrong choices, if they tried hard enough to make them right.
Kami Garcia
#85. I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.
Shandy L. Kurth
#86. I am happy, I tried to tell him with my eyes. I'm happy with Annie; she and my work are all I'll ever need; she's happy, too-we both were till this happened ...
Nancy Garden
#87. Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.
Mike Rogers
#88. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#89. I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.
Brian O'Driscoll
#90. Better to reach your deathbed with regrets for things done rather than remorses for things never tried.
Alex Morritt
#91. I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
Robert M. Gates
#92. 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
#93. When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.
David Wilkerson
#94. The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use
Emma Thompson
#95. [In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.
Ross Perot
#96. Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.
Drake
#97. I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...
Jennifer Elisabeth
#98. He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
#99. If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#100. I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
Eric Williams
