Best I Tried Sayings
1162 I Tried quotes by 908 unique authors
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and…
— Saul Bellow
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I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the…
— Ted Kooser
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I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels
— Kat Dennings
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I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I…
— Robert Pattinson
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I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign…
— Robert Pattinson
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The script changed so much over seven months and just had loads and loads of re-writes. I tried to tailor things to what I was…
— Robert Pattinson
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My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be…
— Unknown Author
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After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to…
— Christie Brinkley
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I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
— Alex Ferguson
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Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in…
— Galen Rowell
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
— Bo Jackson
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Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.…
— Melissa Manchester
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My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two…
— Don Helms
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too…
— Dolly Parton
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
— Carly Simon
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What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the…
— Angelo Dundee
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Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors,…
— Rob Ford
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My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried to touch on…
— Mat Kearney
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation,…
— Lucy Grealy
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It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between…
— Phyllis A. Whitney
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It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened and I tried…
— Nikolay Davydenko
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I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its…
— Unknown Author
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If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.
— Charles Barkley
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
— Clifton Fadiman
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