Rough Quotes

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

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.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

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.

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.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!

Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected

People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now.

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.