She Tried Quotes

89 quotes by 76 authors

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to… — Joan Rivers
One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had… — Rachel Naomi Remen
My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've… — Roger Waters
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light… — Reinaldo Arenas
Sarah Palin has admitted she tried marijuana several years ago, but she did not like it. She said it distorted her perceptions, impaired her thinking,… — Jay Leno
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses,… — Robert Burns
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for… — Eleanor Brown
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few… — Carson McCullers
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you… — Anna Quindlen
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having… — Lewis Carroll
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance. — Anne Stuart
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very… — Jane Austen
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence â€“ â€œSurely,… — Jane Austen
She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care. — Steve Martin
There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a… — J R Ward
He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired… — Anna Godbersen
Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern.… — Cassandra Clare
She stood, squared her shoulders. â€œWeâ€™ll do it. Together.â€ And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed… — Gena Showalter
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could… — Anais Nin

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