You Tried Your Best Quotes

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

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

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

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

I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors. — Jethro Tull

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have you ever tried to split sawdust? — Eugene McCarthy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried! — Melanie Chisholm

It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did. — Paula Garces

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best. — Nelly Furtado

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. — Homer Simpson