All Quotes

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.
‐‐ Jonathan Hickman

I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'
‐‐ Bill Hader

I tried to get us what I thought was the equivalent of a Romo with Quincy Carter in the third round.
‐‐ Jerry Jones

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
‐‐ Shakira

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
‐‐ Lou Reed

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'
‐‐ Sophie Winkleman

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
‐‐ Neko Case

I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
‐‐ Taylor Schilling

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
‐‐ Markus Wolf

I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn't go to dance class again.
‐‐ Nita Ambani

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 can!
‐‐ Ansel Adams

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.
‐‐ Grete Waitz

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

I tried to learn the violin for a while.
‐‐ Peter Wright

I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
‐‐ Chuck Noll

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
‐‐ Little Richard

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.
‐‐ Grant Hill

I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.
‐‐ Chuck Inglish

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.
‐‐ Bruce Dern

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
‐‐ Ad Reinhardt

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried!
‐‐ Britt Robertson

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.
‐‐ Robert Crais

I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers.
‐‐ Elliot Ackerman

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
‐‐ Beth Henley

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.
‐‐ Graham Elliot

I tried to stay off the stage, but you know, I'm an actor; I'm an artist.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

I tried to stay with things until I thought they were on their feet and they learned to walk and talk.
‐‐ Glen A. Larson

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.
‐‐ Tom Bergeron

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
‐‐ Ted Demme

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
‐‐ James Broughton

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.
‐‐ Phil Anselmo

I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
‐‐ Hari Kunzru

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey

I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas. I just tried everything I could think of, and nothing took. No one thought there was a place for my style and my music; it was just too different.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
‐‐ Paula Danziger

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
‐‐ Eric Clapton