All Quotes

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
‐‐ Kim Weston

I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
‐‐ Brian Posehn

I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea - the caffeine - will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That's a new tip.
‐‐ Olivia Culpo

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
‐‐ Alonzo Church

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.
‐‐ Nik Kershaw

I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.
‐‐ Bill Cobbs

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.
‐‐ Kim Novak

I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again. I started playing with indie bands and country bands and finally realized electronic music brought my style to life.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.
‐‐ Liana Liberato

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

I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying.
‐‐ Angel Cabrera

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
‐‐ Britt Ekland

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
‐‐ Gary Carter

I tried the Crisco, and I hated it. Hated it! I couldn't roll it out. I'm a butter girl for my pie crusts.
‐‐ Morgan Saylor

I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
‐‐ Donald Dunn

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
‐‐ A. J. Jacobs

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

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.
‐‐ Emeli Sande

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
‐‐ Imelda May

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.
‐‐ George Jones

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
‐‐ Evan Williams

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
‐‐ Jack Dee

I tried to be just a singer of standards when I was starting out. And there was nothing special enough about my voice to make it that far. So I feel a bit like Rod Stewart. Once you've had that rock career, people will give you that chance where otherwise they might not.
‐‐ Nellie McKay

I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
‐‐ Missy Peregrym

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.
‐‐ Dominic Chianese

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
‐‐ Matthew Vaughn

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
‐‐ B. B. King

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

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.
‐‐ Derek Luke

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon

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.
‐‐ Lili Taylor

I tried to do things independently with each child.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

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

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
‐‐ Frida Kahlo

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.
‐‐ Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.
‐‐ Martin Campbell

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
‐‐ Catherine Opie