Hard Quotes

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

I think of how most people only get three weeks of vacation a year. And that, for me, seems like it would be really hard. My life feels like a vacation.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

I had to fight so hard not to cry.

I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.