Quotes of: Tried Keyword

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

Dennis Farina

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

David Gower

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

Dinaw Mengestu

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'.

Jaiprakash Gaur

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

Natasha Hamilton

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've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

Will Carleton

[Bryce enters the second grade classroom] Young Juli: Bryce! You're here! [runs up and tries to hug him]

Flipped

Alicia: Don't ever leave me. Devlin: You'll never get rid of me again. Alicia: Never tried to.

Notorious

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

Eric Fellner

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac

I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.

Jessica Hecht

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

Penelope Cruz

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

Patrick Chan

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

Paul Hoffman

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Janet Fitch

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Michael Learned