Tried Quotes

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

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.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

I always tried to do the best for my kid.

Trust one who has tried.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

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.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

I'm a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but there have definitely been moments where I'm like, 'You know what? I need to upgrade a little bit.' I've tried to snazz things up as much as I can, with me being as lazy as I am.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.