Quotes of: Tried Keyword

Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.

The Book Thief

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

Clockwork Angel

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

Wiz Khalifa

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Amy Childs

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Greg Lynn

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Minoru Yamasaki

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Edvard Munch

I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. "Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.

Allegiant

Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.

The Handmaid's Tale

I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife?

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures. When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

Infected Connection

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

The Illusion of Separateness

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

Road to Reckoning: A Novel

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

The Red Pyramid

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Shamanspace

Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel… which actress? Damn, she couldn’t think of an actress to save her life! She was on her own.

Simply Irresistible

There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.

Manon Lescaut

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

The Night Circus

Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

You couldn't know how much going away had changed you until you tried to go home.

The Lost Herondale