Rough Quotes

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

One rough patch is not the big picture.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

You're crazy. You're impossible.' 'I'm crazy?' He tipped my chin up and planted a quick, rough kiss on my mouth. 'And I must be crazy for putting up with it.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

I'm confident you haven't seen the best yet. And I will only get better through time and through tougher competition.

Nothing beats a really rough massage. I really hate a man who goes all limp when he's doing a massage. Who needs a soft massage? Just get in there and rub me hard or don't bother.

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

Life, is easy. And if yours isn't, quit whining. Oh, wait. unless you're just a head amd then, you do have it pretty rough. I don't know how you roll out of bed every morning.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

The law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws, the existing law is very rough.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

No path is wholly rough.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.