Tried Quotes

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

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.