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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

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference. — Dan Rather

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

I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole. — Tiger Woods

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

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed. — Sophocles

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 would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home. — Cilla Black

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street. — Bob Dylan

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

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. — Arthur Ashe

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

I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted. — David Cross

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

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed. — Paulo Coelho

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please. — John Wayne

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

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt — Sean Paul

I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all. — Sylvester Stallone

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. — Will Durant

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 make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that. — Imtiaz Ali

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

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992. — Star Jones

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

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success. — Albert Einstein

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 my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride. — Salma Hayek

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. — Lajos Kossuth

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 me
And 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

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much ... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction. — Imtiaz Ali

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

I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it. — Kevin Drew

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. — Abraham Lincoln

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 didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject. — Joe Casey

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. — Billy Sheehan

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn? — McCoy Tyner

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting. — David Salle

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

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly. — Joan Sutherland

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans. — Kristi Noem

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 always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure. — Joan Collins

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

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain

I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it. — Donna Karan

I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries. — Emily Murdoch