Hard Quotes

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

I actually go to church. I know it's hard for you to believe. It's only because you know that Jesus on the cross? I love his smooth hairless body.

Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.