Difficult Quotes

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.

The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny.

The more you populate the 360-degree space, the more difficult it is to cut within that.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.

It's become extremely difficult to speak to active ISIS members now. I was speaking to them in 2015, and the last one was killed in a drone strike.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content.

When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might've caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.