#i tried

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#being #big #comes #confident #down

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#i tried #make #olympics #team #tried

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#boy #comic #comics #could #create

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

— Kat Dennings

#being #four #hours #i #i tried

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ↗

— James Thurber

#came #conclusion #consciousness #finally #find

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#ashamed #because #depressed #fact #hopeless

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. ↗

— Kip Winger

#acoustic guitar #classical #classical guitar #could #got

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. ↗

— Alex Haley

#find #good #i #i tried #much

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#also #any #being #brutal #could