Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bharati Mukherjee

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

FKA twigs

What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

Irvin D. Yalom

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

Ireland Baldwin

I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'

Julia Child

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

Ivan Glasenberg

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

Doris Lessing

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

Dwayne Johnson

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Meryl Streep

A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the same opportunity and not have any stigma attached to them if they choose to pursue their careers.

Without you, it would make our job that much harder or even impossible.

The rail industry is going to have to work hard to demonstrate that these rises represent value for money.

You have nobody willing to be a hero here -- it's hard for people to step up to the plate. Trade over the past two sessions has been very speculative. If you removed Iraq, you'd probably have a market that was doing OK.

Chris Hadfield

Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

Dominique Moceanu

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

Ed Greenwood

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

Isabel Allende

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.

Hillary Clinton

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Glenn Greenwald

It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I've always thought that if you work really hard at something, you can get it.

Eleanor Catton

I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

P. J. O'Rourke

Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

Marianne Williamson

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

We outplayed them the first time, but we just didn't get the puck in the net. We've been practicing going hard to the net and tonight we scored much more easily.

Kaley Cuoco

When John (Ritter) passed away, it was hard to keep the show going,

With a discrepancy like that, it's pretty hard to win games.

John Beilein

With 5 seconds it's just very hard to match their quickness.

With 18 kids, it was getting pretty hard to train them.

Sheri Fink

There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Rachel Sklar

I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

First, it is hard for me to picture that as a pass -- it looks more like a fumble. On the holding call, I'm probably seeing what I want to see, but it looked to me like it was in the end zone.

Jay Cutler

But now winning makes all the practices and all the hard work worthwhile.