Hard Quotes

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

When everyone's kind of watching you when you're out and about, it makes it hard.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

It's very hard for me to relax.

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

It was tough, I gave everything I had on those match points but she just came up with better shots. I still find it very hard to believe. Its amazing.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

When every moment is constantly being filmed, it’s hard to relax.

Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.

I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

Working hard and appreciating the accomplishments that have come from that keeps me grounded.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.