Tried Quotes

4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me… — Elizabeth Hardwick
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,… — Leo Tolstoy
I once tried playing baseball but I started crying. — Thom Yorke
I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful — Thom Yorke
I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds… — Thom Yorke
There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would… — Kurt Cobain
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we,… — Clifford D. Simak
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t… — Robert A. Heinlein
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are… — Valentina Tereshkova
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie
When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes,… — Thelonious Monk
I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be... — Stan Getz
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in… — Dr. John
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey
In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing… — Alejandro Amenabar
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our… — Abdul Kalam
If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog. — Ingrid Newkirk
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava
Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal… — Rand Paul
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that… — Wangari Maathai
I took it upon myself to be more aggressive. I wanted the ball. Coach gave me the ball and I just tried to attack (and)… — Dwyane Wade
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the… — Harry S. Truman
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she… — Dick Gregory
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for… — Nikola Tesla

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