#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

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that. ↗

— Jim Dale

#back #bus #captive #comedy #coming

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

— Charles Darwin

#found #i #lately #me #nauseated

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

— Lindsay Davenport

#athlete #fact #hide #i #i always

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. ↗

— Angela Davis

#alliance #another #around #called #case

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#current #had #i #i tried #influence

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. ↗

— Xun Zi

#could #distance #far #farther #found

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#forest #game #ground #hard #however

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?' ↗

— Matt Long

#had #hate #i #think #tried