Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
C. S. Lewis
Saul Bellow
Francois Rabelais
A. R. Ammons
Jane Austen
Albert Einstein
All authors
Today's birthdays
1908 - Bette Davis
1937 - Colin Powell
1856 - Booker T. Washington
1956 - Reid Ribble
1968 - Stewart Lee
1967 - Denise Juneau
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Aviator
Designer
Clergyman
Athlete
Chef
Artist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Tried Quotes
Tried Quotes
Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.
Peter Hollingworth
Life
Me
Matter
Important
Sense
Tried
About
Pursue
Had
Clear
Over
Suppose
Years
Hanging
Them
Certain
Things
My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.
Peter Scolari
Me
Pride
Wife
First
Year
Think
Back
Later
Way
Tried
She
Got
Year Later
Stinky
End-All
Get
Little
Used
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
Peter Steele
Change
Stress
Band
Consistent
Kind
One Of The Things
Visual
Tried
Some
Like
Always
Personally
Aspect
Things
Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.
Peter T. King
Surrender
Police
First
Self-Defense
Criminal
Charged
Tried
Wilson
Weapon
Brown
Above
Take
Never
Attempted
Had
He
Head
Robbed
Police Officer
Him
His
Michael
Michael Brown
Officer
Hands
Convenience
Store
After
Then
Who
Away
Raised
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Peter T. King
Future
Intelligence
Blindly
Down
Foil
Tried
Silent
Some
Remain
Attacks
Terrorist
Terrorists
Done
Flight
Reason
Who
Right
Bring
Need
Gather
When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
Peter T. King
Tried
Civilians
Put
Wrong
Context
Go
Were
IRA
Did
Things
Defend
I tried to learn the violin for a while.
Peter Wright
Tried
Learn
While
Violin
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
Peter Zumthor
Life
Art
Me
Son
Wonderful
Interior
School
Father
First
Design
Running
Tried
Running Away
Only
Take
Had
He
Over
Industrial
His
Years
Art School
Escape
Shop
Going
Being
Eldest
Then
Profession
Professional
Professional Life
Away
I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.
Petra Kvitova
Good
Too Much
Few
Too
Tried
Like
Times
Unfortunately
Much
Cook
Good Cook
There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.
Phil Jackson
You
Sometimes
Practice
Too
Other
Rightfully
Out
Tried
Chatter
Take
Make
Talking
Understand
Lot
Gets
Difference
Want
Ordinary
Them
Special
Each
Things
Players
Basketball
I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.
Phil Klay
War
Good
Good Job
Job
Tried
About
Write
Wrote
Always
Iraq
Very
Stories
While
Really
Necessarily
I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.
Phyllis Smith
Work
Time
Sadness
Be True
Out
Tried
Inside
Inside-Out
Gut
True
Come
Real
Real Place
Did
Going
Just
Wanted
Place
When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.
Pia Zadora
Work
Wife
Year
Society
Back
Married
Tried
About
About A Year
Perfect
Got
Stopped
After
While
Working
We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.
Poppy
School
Pay
Pay Attention
Down
Those
Tried
Push
Attention
Were
Losers
Middle
Middle School
Stairs
Us
Who
Need
Whatever opportunities I got after the Under-19 World Cup, I tried to make most of it and do my best for the team.
Prithvi Shaw
Best
World
Opportunities
Whatever
Tried
Most
Make
Got
Cup
After
Team
World Cup
No country has left the E.U. since Greenland in 1985 and no one believes that delivering what the people voted for will be a walk in the park, so it's important that the person ultimately chosen by the party membership is tried and tested, capable of making tough decisions and can lead a team negotiating with E.U. institutions.
Priti Patel
People
Walk
Will
Tough
Country
Important
Party
Negotiating
Membership
Tried
No Country
Park
Tough Decisions
Lead
Delivering
No-One
Since
Voted
Institutions
Making
Tested
Ultimately
Left
Person
Greenland
Decisions
Capable
Team
Chosen
Believes
I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.
Psy
Funny
Me
Girl
Young
Dances
Dancing
One Thing
Tried
Attention
Since
Come
Attract
Always
Got
Off
Up
Serious
Thing
Pull
When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.
RM
Life
You
People
Rare
First
Extraordinary
Lyrics
Melodies
Tried
Find
Some
Something
Cat
Come
Like
Wrote
Up
Very
Themes
Meanings
Special
Serendipity
Lives
Things
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
Rachael Ray
Food
Birthday
Me
Cake
Mother
Three
Cried
Took
Tried
Days
Bake
Hours
Terrible
Four
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
Rachael Stirling
Me
People
School
Girl
Took
Dances
Those
Ours
Introduce
Tried
Never
Supposed
Cleverest
Because
Boy
Always
Dear
Were
His
Friends
Just
Children
Them
Dad
Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Generation
Parents
Extraordinarily
Ought
Everywhere
Tried
Charter
Charter Schools
Importance
Schools
Sure
Understand
Making
Proven
Been
Successful
Next
Grandparents
Next Generation
Nearly
I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.
Rachel Hollis
Digital
Books
Tried
Date
True
Just
Fancy
Notebook
Planners
Large
Actually
Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.
Radamel Falcao
Myself
Good
Age
Young
Tried
Dreamt
Mental
Since
Very
Young Age
Being
Psychological
Soccer
Aspect
Professional
Prepare
Player
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.
Rakim
Life
Spirituality
Tried
Religions
Insert
Records
Writings
Always
How
Cultures
Times
Modern
Modern Times
Consciousness
Interpreting
Apply
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player.
Rakim
Music
Listening
Style
Jazz
Every
Way
Saxophone
Bit
Tried
John
John Coltrane
Had
Coltrane
Implement
Like
Came
Trying
Did
Loved
Rhyme
Little
Little Bit
Pause
Thing
Played
Player
Albums
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
Good
Rugby
Tried
Never
Very
Play
Load more quotes
No more tried quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Always
Am
Any