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I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor. — Buzz Osborne

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Galder tried to shout, but his voice refused to come out. — Terry Pratchett

In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction. — Jennifer Doudna

I was looking for long term, and, my Lev ... he would give me long term. My heart belonged to him. Lord help the person who tried to get between us. — Belle Aurora

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts. — Tamara Taylor

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters. — Charlize Theron

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead. — Lee Hazlewood

When I let my mind wander back that far, what I see is how hard we tried to be our best for one another. In — George Hodgman

Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out. — Kami Garcia

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant. — Art Linkletter

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy. — Samuel Rutherford

Rose found her solace in her religion.
I tried to find my own solace in running away from my own. — Andie J Fessey

Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes. — Donald Young

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

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history. — Thuy Trang

I'd tried to explain to her that she needed to stop seeing the world through pretty-girl glasses. It skewed her perspectives. — Sariah Wilson

It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be. — Antwone Fisher

Harry tried every variation of 'I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you' that he could think of for a whole hour, at — J.K. Rowling

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon. — Jay Leno

human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here! — Yuval Noah Harari

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated. — Derek Jeter

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. — Trevor Dunn

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! — J.K. Rowling

I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened. — Curt Gowdy

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too. — Mike Judge

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook. — David Copperfield

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't. — Shannon L. Alder

He tried to help the world, but the world wouldn't let him. — John Corey Whaley

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver. — Steve Jobs

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] — Augusten Burroughs

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it. — Earl Blaik

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

Have you ever tried to find the words to say something, but no matter what you think of saying, you know it might come out wrong? — Lynette Ferreira

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching. — Bobby Hull

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried — Elizabeth Musser

His condescending tone irked me even more. "Sex isn't the only way to show a person how you feel." "I know. I tried to give you a nightclub. — Laurelin Paige

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know? — Tony Garnett

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career. — Patricia Kaas

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips. — Dolly Parton

The Jets tried this whole garbage with Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez and it got them nowhere, — Donovan McNabb

She tried not to look mad - but she'd rather look mad than look like she'd spent all night thinking about how beautiful his lips were. — Rainbow Rowell

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value ... — Mark Tobey

Eyes were keep seeking for sleep whole night, but in seeking they skipped it near by Eyes lash! — Samar Sudha

For to Ade, ... the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was. — Dorothy Day

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. — Henry Cabot Lodge

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with. — Douglas Leone

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake. — Michelle M. Pillow

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable. — John Stossel

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

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. — Joe Abercrombie

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. — Wilson Mizner

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all. — David Filo

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart. — Dinah Shore

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! — Ansel Adams

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. — Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Nick tried to give him a reassuring smile, but he knew himself well enough to know that when he smiled, it rarely reassured anyone. — Abigail Roux

I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it. — Ernest Cline

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient. — Sadie Frost

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. — Kenneth Williams

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

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won. — John Prine

I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them. — Keith Belling

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much. — Jack McDevitt

I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way. — Lee Child

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. — Wyclef Jean

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date. — David Bailey

She'd had sex with a demon. Tayla swallowed bile and tried to keep her stomach from heaving. She needed to shower. And douche. — Larissa Ione

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting. — Amy Heckerling

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing. — Cormac McCarthy

Melody tried to distract me in a skirt made of brain skin. — Steve Aylett

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it. — Alister E. McGrath

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life. — Dave Keuning

Eventually we all need someone to try and save us; even if they fail, the fact that someone tried might be what matters most in the end. — Jay Crownover

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey

Even if I failed at least I tried and for that I will always be a winner! — S.M.Brown

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. — John Lennon

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides. — Cecilia Bartoli

Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly. — Tiffany Snow

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth. — Joseph Barbera

What's been tried once had been tried once before ... and before ... and before ... — Stephen King

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? — Carol S. Dweck

Have you ever tried to split sawdust? — Eugene McCarthy

Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound. — Mark Helprin

Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried? — Kazuo Ishiguro

I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while. — Kenneth Logan

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it. — Rick Riordan

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. — Edward Abbey

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried. — Susan Jeffers

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life. — David Starr Jordan

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. — Albert Einstein

Try till you succeed ... if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried! — W.C. Fields

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. — Jon Stewart

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red. — Pete Hamill

The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't. — Donna Tartt