Hard Quotes
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.
In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.
It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.
no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.
I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.
At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun to have someone to laugh with and have a good time with.
So you’re saying the afterlife is hard on the libido? FYI, that’s probably not a good bullet point for your recruiting brochure.
I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
My mind-set, my mental game and my hard work is at a first-round level. I play at a first-round level. I've done things that most guys haven't done.
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.
When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.
Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.
This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?
The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.
The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.
I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.
It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.