Rough famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.
-- Babyface -
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
-- Bernard Crick -
Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
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.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
-- Catherine Malandrino -
I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.
-- Corey Feldman -
It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.
-- Daryl Hannah -
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
-- David Bailey -
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
-- Doug Larson -
We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.
-- Evander Holyfield -
The birth of any show is always a rough one.
-- Genevieve Gorder -
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
-- Jamais Cascio -
The present is always the best, even when its rough.
-- Julien Torma -
It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
-- Kay Panabaker -
What are you doing?†she cried in protest. “Playing,†he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
-- Linda Howard -
Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused.
-- Lorna Dee Cervantes -
I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.
-- Mia Hamm -
It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.
-- Milton Berle -
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.
-- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky -
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
-- Monique Wittig -
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
-- Philip Massinger -
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
-- Rick Springfield -
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
-- Robert W. Service -
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
-- S. E. Hinton -
It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
-- S. E. Hinton -
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
-- Sam Taylor-Wood -
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.
-- Seve Ballesteros -
I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
-- Squarepusher -
It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.
-- Sue Wicks -
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
-- Terence Stamp -
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
-- Vikram Seth -
Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
-- William H. Macy -
There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.
-- Andrew Bujalski -
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.
-- Barry Blitt -
At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.
-- Jason Lutes -
You know it's going to be difficult because you're working with friends, but at the same it's like, well, they're your friends and everybody's cool, so even if there are rough spots we'll get through it. And I'm happy to say we did.
-- Mike Mendez -
Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.
-- Rashid Khalidi -
I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.
-- Bobby Lashley -
Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.
-- Adam Granduciel -
We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.
-- Alysia Reiner -
To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.
-- Harriet Rubin -
The way of the pioneer is always rough.
-- Harvey S. Firestone
