I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

- Bob Seger

When I started out I was a failed actor.

- David Mamet

I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.

- Chris Toumazou

I'm not going to defend Sen. Udall's failed record.

- Cory Gardner

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

- Claire Tomalin

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

- Chris Jericho

When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.

- Brian Acton

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

- Blake Mycoskie

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

- Bianca Jagger

I failed music when I was a teenager.

- Buzz Aldrin

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

- Ben Affleck

There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

- Beck

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

- Alexander Theroux

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

- Al D'Amato

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

- Adam Brody

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

- Amy Bloom

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

- Allen West

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

- Angela Merkel