Rough Quotes
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.
I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .
Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.
Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good.
I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.
Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.