Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

I especially have difficulty reconciling those views with a person serving in the NYC fire department.

I don't think it is difficult to turn around and play them on such short notice. It gives only one week to prepare, but we are prepared because we know what they are doing. It is also good because it is still fresh on our girls' minds that we lost to them last week.

Gustave Flaubert

I maintain that ideas are events. It is more difficult to make them interesting, I know, but if you fail the style is at fault.

I had hoped they would come to the table today to help us work out these issues, ... It's difficult to do with the Historical Society not here.

I have narrowed it down to a top six but it is a very difficult task. Someone else might come up with another six altogether.

I hate it for him. And it's made it more difficult for us. It's obvious he would've been our leading scorer. But some things, you can't help.

Alan Greenspan

I find it difficult to find rational arguments for that particular initiative,

I feel like the number of units is too much for the environmental constraints of the property. It was difficult for me to feel that the township was being treated with due respect.

I feel so miserable it is difficult even to say sorry. I will be repenting for this for the rest of my life.

Ashley Smith

I feel that blackboard needs to be improved and especially for new users, it can be really difficult to learn the basics. And I really wish they would do something about our overpriced books.

I can't say at this point how it's going to end up, ... difficult but not insurmountable.

Carl Mydans

I found him an impressive man, and a very difficult man.

Jennifer Beals

If they were combative, it would make it much easier for the men. Not being combative, it makes it much more difficult for them to penetrate the veil.

If this kind of strength follows through to other reports, it will become very difficult for the Fed to leave rates unchanged when they meet on Aug. 22nd,

Ruth Rendell

I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

Ravi Shankar

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

I have every difficulty that any other entrepreneur has plus one extra. I have to hire extra help on projects that a regular person wouldn't necessarily need.

Livan Hernandez

I don't know what happened. I'm going to try to put it out of my mind. I feel good. My knee feels good. It's difficult for me but I'll be alright. I'm going to start winning games.

My kids all said that they thought this tournament was more difficult than the ones they have been in the past two weeks. So that was good, and they were glad to have done well considering it was such good competition.

Phil Klay

One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.

To reduce the difficulty for people, we are now attesting photocopies of such documents as a temporary arrangement so that they will get enough time to get the originals attested in India.

FKA twigs

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

Ha-Joon Chang

Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.

David Hasselhoff

When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience. I like to be on stage; I feel safer on stage because I'm in control.

Barry Eisler

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Ada Yonath

During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

We have shooters who make it difficult to just go zone. We don't have the post game but we've gone a long way without one. It's worked out OK. We've proved there's other ways to be successful.

Ottessa Moshfegh

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

Oscar Isaac

Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.