Tried Quotes

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

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

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

mean when I was a young kid, you know, I tried to do, you know, what they called reversion therapy back then and that is, you know, read the 'Playboy' magazines or read whatever it is and try to sort of correct yourself into it. And then you try to manage it badly. But you get married because you think that's what your church asks you.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

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