Difficult Quotes

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.