In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
Wavy Gravy

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

I tried. But not everybody thought so.
Andrew Young

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
Caroline Corr

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
Bjork

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.
George Steinbrenner

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Marie Dressler

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
Dusty Springfield

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
Josh Lucas

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Orson Scott Card

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

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
Geoffrey Boycott

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

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
Nusrat F. A. Khan

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.
Amanda Lear

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy

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

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.
Paul Gascoigne