If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. Votes: 2
John LennonYou can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. Votes: 2
Winston ChurchillIf I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity. Votes: 2
Tyra BanksI always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit. Votes: 2
Anthony DavisI sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. Votes: 0
Stephanie Herseth SandlinMilton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithI mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career. Votes: 0
Charlize TheronJohn Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. Votes: 0
John Sergeant WiseWhoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree. Votes: 0
John CandyWhat's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before... Votes: 0
Stephen KingLove me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. Votes: 0
Jonathan Safran FoerWhat we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking. Votes: 0
David PlouffePutting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. Votes: 0
S. Truett CathyI tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls... Votes: 0
Jennifer ElisabethSchool was a strange place where they tried to make you into something. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghIt is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything Votes: 0
William J. ClintonShe tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible. Votes: 0
Anthony HorowitzOver the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured. Votes: 0
Gavin BryarsMy femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world. Votes: 0
Margaret SmithYour love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried. Votes: 0
Sarah McLachlanI've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed. Votes: 0
David Alan GrierPeople who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little. Votes: 0
Anna Bartlett WarnerWhy seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? Votes: 0
Carol S. DweckAnyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. Votes: 0
David Ben-GurionBob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. Votes: 0
Wyclef JeanFor 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals, Votes: 0
Georges SimenonIf you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. Votes: 0
Steven WrightYou do not know what is better before you have tried what is worse. Votes: 0
Thomas Rathsach StrangeSome of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things. Votes: 0
Gregory David RobertsI want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded. Votes: 0
Cynthia Addai-RobinsonIf they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable. Votes: 0
Gabourey SidibeYou should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them. Votes: 0
Comtesse DianeI've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world. Votes: 0
Serj TankianPhotography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! Votes: 0
Bill BrandtWe are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. Votes: 0
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikYou're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried. Votes: 0
Susan JeffersWhat if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone.""At least I'll know I tried. Votes: 0
Megan BosticFailure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried. Votes: 0
H. L. BalcombWe tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so. Votes: 0
Vijay MallyaFor gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. Votes: 0
George SantayanaHe was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. Votes: 0
Woody AllenLook who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonI tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. Votes: 0
Cormac McCarthyPeople tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career. Votes: 0
Patricia KaasMy voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly. Votes: 0
Joan SutherlandWe've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in. Votes: 0
John MackeyI tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonI have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyI won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. Votes: 0
Francois RabelaisAll I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. Votes: 0
Robert Penn WarrenFor the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions Votes: 0
Lou GerstnerDefeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. Votes: 0
George Edward WoodberryIn fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012. Votes: 0
Jane MayerEvery time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated. Votes: 0
Jose CansecoI write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy Votes: 0
Groucho MarxSuppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure. Votes: 0
E. Stanley JonesBeing a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried. Votes: 0
James MarstersGrace tried is better than grace, and more than grace it is glory in its infancy Votes: 0
Samuel RutherfordThis is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertI tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels. Votes: 0
Kat DenningsGrace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy. Votes: 0
Samuel RutherfordYou're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. Votes: 0
Audrey NiffeneggerI got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi. Votes: 0
Lauryn HillI tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it. Votes: 0
Drew CareyGrace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy Votes: 0
Samuel RutherfordI've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. Votes: 0
Kareem Abdul-JabbarThe cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsAll the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWe do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Votes: 0
Robert M. HutchinsI've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example. Votes: 0
Elvis PresleyI've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best Votes: 0
Cristiano RonaldoI have tried my entire life to do what I can to support children and families. Votes: 0
Hillary Clinton[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips. Votes: 0
Dolly PartonBeware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. Votes: 0
Donald KnuthWhen I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work. Votes: 0
Joseph Gordon-LevittThe man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. Votes: 0
Bud WilkinsonI tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. Votes: 0
Jamie FarrThe pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. Votes: 0
George SantayanaIf we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLast week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe. Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldI've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. Votes: 0
Sam WorthingtonMy first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them. Votes: 0
John BurnsideMy parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place. Votes: 0
Pamela AndersonI'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet. Votes: 0
Brad WilliamsI am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. Votes: 0
Ani DiFrancoA lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world. Votes: 0
Ariel SharonI may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent. Votes: 0
Emma GoldmanI always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal. Votes: 0
Lindsay DavenportI tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried! Votes: 0
Britt RobertsonI was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine. Votes: 0
Jamie McGuireI'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film. Votes: 0
Kevin BaconI did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go. Votes: 0
John OliverI went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit. Votes: 0
Joseph MazzelloI've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. Votes: 0
Louis C. K.I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me. Votes: 0
Stephenie MeyerI tried to blow a yellow jacket out and now it's wearing a bow tie in its mouth. Votes: 0
Ana Claudia AntunesEverybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. Votes: 0
Luke EvansI never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnI used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.' Votes: 0
Katherine DunhamBe not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeGive it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!
Melanie ChisholmI don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
Rodney DangerfieldGod chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.
George MacDonaldCome celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Lucille CliftonI think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.
Stephen MallinderI only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler
Wilhelm CanarisI think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
Daniel RadcliffeAs for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Kerry ThornleyYou tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson
Matt GroeningI tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.
Sylvester StalloneJulie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
Wendelin Van DraanenAlthough I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
Albert EinsteinI've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
James HansenI don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.
Loren D. EstlemanAs if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
Rainer Maria RilkeI once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
Rodney DangerfieldTried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
Steven MorrisseyDo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
Teresa of AvilaThe press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.
Billy CarterI have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.
Cliff RichardI stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
Emily St. John MandelI kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Ernest HemingwayA lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.
Gregory David RobertsI'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.
Joan RiversI do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise BrooksYour beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.
Lucy ChristopherWork won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.
Samuel Hopkins AdamsIf you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.
Scott AdamsI've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
Cliff MartinezI tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.
Dana GouldWhat I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
David CopperfieldIsn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?
Inio AsanoEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand RussellThe times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
Henry RollinsI've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.
John Kenneth GalbraithI really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
Martina McBrideI followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.
Michelle BranchWhere lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
Walter ScottWe used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
Anthony KiedisI've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.
Aziz Ansari... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
Eunice Kennedy ShriverAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
George OrwellI've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.
Hank AaronAnd my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
Mike PenceI tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.
Rick RiordanMany of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.
Rick StrassmanIn Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too
Usain BoltJust because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.
Vicki PetterssonI used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
Alda MeriniI've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
Ann-MargretAny drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
Dean KoontzPeople can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.
Girl TalkEven though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
Jean KerrI haven't even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.
Richelle MeadMy father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
Rodney DangerfieldAt twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.
Sylvia PlathI tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.
Sylvia PlathI've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
Greg Behrendt"Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.
Jesse BrockThe cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
Ken AdamThe difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
Mark TwainI've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
Spike LeeI do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
Winston ChurchillA motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
Billy CollinsI could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
Caitlin MoranI've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
Chris TuckerI have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.
Colin PowellNowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.
Daniel DumileWhen Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.
Donald TrumpIn this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
George CrabbeI have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.
Larry HiteI've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.
Steven Curtis ChapmanA mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Thomas CarlyleI tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.
Udo KierI wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.
Zoe CassavetesLook, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times.
Bill MaherIt is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.
John TaylorI've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
Lois McMaster BujoldPeople, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.
Paulo CoelhoTried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
RakimIn 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.
Sean HannityI never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.
Tonya HurleyPeople ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
William FaulknerLiving is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
Anne McCaffreyI rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
George R. R. MartinAfter 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.
Jessica SzohrI want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
Jon StewartIt might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.
Julianna MarguliesI auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's
Kate HudsonI tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.
Kevin NealonI tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
Louise ErdrichI just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people.
Mike BibbyDo you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.
Roy BluntWhen you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire
Stephen R. DonaldsonNobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
Steve JobsSo I tried to activate my glutes as best I could, in between, but...they never stayed activated.
Tiger WoodsI can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
Adam DuritzI always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]
Augusten BurroughsThousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
Benjamin GrahamI can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.
Bob MooreI believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
Carl JungI never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
Diana PalmerI tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.
Joe BuddenYou've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work.
Michael DunlopI've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.
Russell WilsonHe felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.
Steig LarssonI tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.
UsherLyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.
Adam RichMy daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.
Angela LansburyHappy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...
Anna Letitia BarbauldI tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money
Beth HenleyNiggas tried to holla, but couldn't holla back Now they gots to swallow, everything in the sack.
DMX[On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.
Dolly PartonI cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
James Anthony FroudeI tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.
John WatersI've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!
Johnny DeppSince I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
Josephine BakerMany of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.
Mark MillarA business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.
Michael ArringtonWhen I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.
Neil YoungI tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
Rafael NadalI would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren CuccurulloIt's a lot of people that's tried to stop my grind, there's been a lot of hate, but even more love.
Ace HoodGirls don't really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.
Mark SallingI have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
Mark TwainA living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
Nicholas SparksProg rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.
Phil CollinsLike some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?
Rick RiordanPursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
Tim O'ReillyI tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
Yunus EmrePeople are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
Assata ShakurI tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.
Ilona AndrewsI think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.
Jack JohnsonI've been married twice and I've tried to make it work but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.
Jennifer LopezWe Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.
Peter ScottI have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.
Rafael NadalI've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.
Regina KingIt is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.
Robert G. PicardI saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.
Travis Morrison