Hard Quotes

Hard writing makes easy reading.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.