Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Lupton

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Ellen DeGeneres

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

Eric Ries

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Emily Blunt

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

Emily Bronte

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

Ellen Terry

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.

John Glover

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

All of this stuff is so new, it's hard to say what the liability issues are.

All of the hard work paid off. It is a real accomplishment.

Vince Carter

All of these people are struggling, but it's a little harder when you have three kids and they're young. If you get one athlete, one artist, to help out one family, it's good.

All of them can shoot. They can all penetrate. They rebound well. .... It's just hard for us to match up.

All the hard work pays off. All the running and lifting and thousands of baskets. Everything pays off.

Rachel True

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

Holly Black

The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

Henrik Lundqvist

I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

Henri Nouwen

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Hayley Williams

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Henry Ford

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Jonathan Sacks

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

Napoleon Hill

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

Napoleon Hill

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

Orhan Pamuk

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

Oliver Cromwell

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

Master P

Work hard and never make excuses.

Michael Moore

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

Michael Chertoff

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.

Michael Connelly

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

Martina McBride

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

Mark Cuban

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

Theodore Roosevelt

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.