#tried

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

— Arthur Ashe

#achieving #anything #because #ever #i

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#i #i tried #picked #racket #tennis

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#bit #caught #cockpit #had #i

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#even #found #go #i #i tried

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years. ↗

— Travis Barker

#did #drum #got #high #high school

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#decided #films #going #had #i

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

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. ↗

— Brad Bird

#archetypes #base #family #i #i tried