You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.
Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.
I had very good LSD, but the problem was - I tried making a film, or doing some filming, when I was on LSD, and it's impossible. I couldn't focus. I tried focusing, but when I looked through the lens, I'd see all different layers of focus, and I couldn't find which was the real one behind the camera. And I just thought, this does not work, and I never tried that again.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
I got to meet Andy [Hertzfeld], and he sort of opened his life to me. He showed me Palo Alto and we had food together and I met his wife and saw his home. We talked a lot about his experiences, and I just tried to absorb as much about him as I could.
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.
They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first.
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.
I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.
I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. . . . I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.
I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved,. . . and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.