Hard Quotes

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.

I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

Getting older is hard.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was a struggle but I've worked hard. . . I'm not going back, I'm going forward.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

In London, it's hard for me to wear anything more colorful than black. When I'm in Rome, I dress up in white. When I'm in Paris, I became a Parisian. Striped T-shirt, Chanel. It's funny!

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

It is good when you score lots of goals, but it is hard.

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.” “Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,” said Xavier flippantly

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.

The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.