I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I’ve tried writing. Two days later I’d go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.

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

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

I’ve never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It’ll find the person or persons who are supposed to do...

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

‘XIII’ is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to ‘The Bourne Identity.’ I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don’t make it, at least you can say you tried.

I have always tried to stay current.

I am sorry for when I do it hopefully one day you’ll realise why. Please do not be angry; just understand that today I tried.

For the most part, I’ve been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn’t sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And...

I’ve never tried to be something I’m not.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I’ve never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons… I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part.

That’s why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn’t want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when...

I’ve always tried to be fair to my subjects. That’s easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

For years, I’ve written narrators who aren’t gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that’s different, obviously. But I’ve always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man’s thing.

I’ve always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn’t so concerned with impressing anybody.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people’s offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out...

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn’t have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in...

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I’m kind of clumsy.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

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

I’ve always tried to vote my conscience.

If you look at Earwolf, we’ve tried to have a really diverse stable of hosts. Even my show can get a little ‘dudey’ sometimes.

I tried ice-skating and wasn’t very good at it.

I’m a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they’re so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I...

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

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

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

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, ‘You can have a Rolls-Royce’. I’d say to that, ‘What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a...

Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things...

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women’s struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

I am so tired – so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle...

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don’t want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone’s throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn’t much they could do...

I didn’t try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.