Tried Quotes
4144 quotes by 2988 authors
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
— Neil Armstrong
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
— Arthur Ashe
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Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
— Joseph Barbera
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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of…
— Douglas Bader
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
— David Bailey
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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
— David Bailey
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph…
— Ansel Adams
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You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
— John Barrymore
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
— Roland Barthes
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are…
— Scott Adams
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would…
— Scott Adams
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President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in…
— Bob Beauprez
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All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own…
— Martha Beck
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd…
— Victoria Beckham
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
— Robert Benchley
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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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…
— Annie Besant
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I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look…
— Jessica Biel
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps…
— Theodore Bikel
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