Tried Quotes
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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
Carol Mann
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I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me. That hurt my feelings.
Craig Lancaster
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A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth.
He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them.
But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking.
Charles Beaumont
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
Sun Ra
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In all my writings I have always tried — how far successfully I know not — to advance the cause of Truth and Right and to induce my readers to put their trust in the love of God our Saviour, for this life as well as the life to come.
R. M. Williams
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When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
Dick Vitale
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If they tried that in Australia we'd have kicked their ass!
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
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Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...
Catherynne M. Valente
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Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!
Mel C
Spice Girls
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Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
Dinah Jane
Fifth Harmony
