Hard Quotes

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.

To be famous and broke is hard.

It's hard to have a career.

There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.

Go out hard and finish harder.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.