Hard Quotes

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

I'm not someone who plays hard to get.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.