All Quotes

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
‐‐ Alberto Giacometti

I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.
‐‐ French Montana

I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.
‐‐ Nigel Mansell

I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
‐‐ David Ignatius

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.
‐‐ Rupert Holmes

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
‐‐ Malcolm McDowell

I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.
‐‐ Brooke Burke

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
‐‐ Scott Adams

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
‐‐ Usain Bolt

I've tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.
‐‐ James Cameron

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.
‐‐ Ramez Naam

I've tried open-ended jobs and found myself incredibly unhappy. I don't like the monomania of showing up every day and doing the same thing. I don't know where my next cheque is coming from, I don't know where my next job is coming from, I have really sketchy health insurance, but I need variety in my life.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.
‐‐ Avicii

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
‐‐ Tamar Braxton

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
‐‐ Poppy Z. Brite

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
‐‐ James Hansen

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.
‐‐ Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.
‐‐ Regina King

I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.
‐‐ Ann Aguirre

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.
‐‐ Junior Seau

I've tried to convince members of my party that we should not allow the hair on the backs of our necks to bristle every time somebody mentions renewable energy.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.'
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.
‐‐ Jerry Jones

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
‐‐ Charley Pride

I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.
‐‐ Dalton McGuinty

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

I've tried to let the work I do speak.
‐‐ David Morse

I've tried to maintain a healthy image but not necessarily a size because as women, we're all different sizes. I go for being the healthy size; whatever that is for you. It's important to embrace that and love your body for what it is. Each woman has her own body.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.
‐‐ Collin C. Peterson

I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.
‐‐ Corey Clark

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!
‐‐ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
‐‐ Jack McDevitt

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
‐‐ Jack Zipes