I Tried Quotes

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

Wife, Together, Two

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

Funny, Dance, Mad

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Clint Eastwood

Tried, Reasonable

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.
Charlie Sheen

Marriage, Tried, Golden

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

Good, Feeling, Learned

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
Johnny Depp

Life, Time, Long

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

Soul, Keep, Alive

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
Dimebag Darrell

Beauty, Different, Trying

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurber

Find, Sometimes, Start

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry A. Kissinger

War, Why, Rather

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
Stokely Carmichael

Time, Vote, Knew

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
Jon Stewart

Work, Good, Hope

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

Good, Writing, Find

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

Acting, Wanted, Hockey

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
Jon Stewart

Work, Everything, Career

I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Mother, Everything

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
George C. Marshall

Time, Mind, Him

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
Scott Adams

Life, True, Thought

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams

Words, Word, Hand

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
Brian Eno

Idea, Tried, Large

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

Put, Once, Tried

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

Control, Others, Forgive

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David

Woman, Flirt, Away

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

Thought, Pretty, Difficult

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

Design, Different, Path

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Work, Person, Ego

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
Ava Gardner

Life, Marriage, End

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
Eric Cantona

Career, Sometimes, Second

I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it... that is critical.
Julia Roberts

Time, Children, Feeling

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
Adam Garcia

Good, Laughter, End

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