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My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
— Jimmy Fallon
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
— Caitlin Moran
Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.
— Kelly McGillis
They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.
— Mike Birbiglia
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
— Charles De Gaulle
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
— Charles Darwin
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
— Vern Buchanan
The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
— Henry Rollins
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
— Cam Gigandet
Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.
— Charles Dickens
Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.
— Vanessa Veselka
What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny ... Oh my God - this is so offensive.
— Michael Leunig
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
— Edward Hopper
I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.
— Dorianne Laux
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
— Mitchell Baker
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
— Lisa Cholodenko
What I am afraid of is ... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
— Dusty Springfield
I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.
— Millard Fuller
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
— Abraham Lincoln
Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring and no one listens to you!- Russ Cargill — Matt Groening
Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!
— Leslie Austin
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.
If I could cook I wouldn't have to study my ass off at school and I would have tried to find a man to support me as his lovely wife.
— Carolina Soto
I would have winked back - that is - if I could. Ever since I was little and tried to wink, it always looked like a painful squint.
— Valerie Biel
Our people are in need of truth and I have tried and will continue to try to speak only truth to the people.
— Maya Angelou
Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.
— Jim Croce
I did not sign up for this. She tried to fist me ... and it was someplace I don't even have any holes!
— Rhys Ford
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.
— Sylvester Stallone
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
— Josef Albers
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
— Andrea Bocelli
I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?
— Craig Hatkoff
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
— Jack Osbourne
In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
— Madhur Bhandarkar
The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.
— Sloane Crosley
I tried to pick Nykyrian's pocket last year. (Jana)And you let him live? (Kiara)
I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Look, I've always had an empty place in my life that I've alternatively tried to fill with food and penises, but now I have something.
— Christopher Moore
If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
— Danny Aiello
And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
— Noureddine Morceli
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
— Erol Alkan
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
— Thomas A. Edison
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
— Winston Churchill
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
— Patrick DeWitt
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
— Roland Barthes
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
— Erin Morgenstern
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
— Robert Benchley
I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.
— Emma Donoghue
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
— Cathy Guisewite
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.
— Marian Engel
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
— Norman McLaren
My sister Laura's bigger than meAnd lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside. — Spike Milligan
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
If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
— Jack Layton
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
— Edvard Munch
I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.
— Catherine O'Hara
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
— Angelina Jolie
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— Francois Rabelais
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
— Georges Simenon
Once upon a time, I tried to have dinner with my best friend, and the apocalypse happened.
— Chloe Neill
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
— Jamie Blackley
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I have tried a little kinky stuff. A woman called me and said, 'I have mirrors all over my bedroom. Bring a bottle.' I brought Windex.
— Rodney Dangerfield
I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.
— George Steinbrenner
As for Doing-good ... I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.
— George Meade
I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures ...
— Catherynne M Valente
I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.
— Claire Danes
