#tried

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#defend #did #everyone #i #i think

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. ↗

— Scott Adams

#case #common #cramp #draw #drawing

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.' ↗

— Danny Aiello

#capone #could #even #i #like

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. ↗

— Tim Allen

#dangerous #electricity #far #floor #go

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#american president #avoid #capabilities #contrary #convince

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know? ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#avoid #did #i #i tried #just

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can. ↗

— Shane Warne

#disappointments #fast #i #i can #move

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end. ↗

— Bjork

#conservatives #end #funny #get #hand

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

— Erasmus Darwin

#fool #his #life #man #never

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing