All Quotes

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
‐‐ Abigail Disney

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
‐‐ Adam McKay

The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
‐‐ Emory Cohen

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.
‐‐ Ashleigh Banfield

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.
‐‐ Kevin Pietersen

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
‐‐ Ian Hunter

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
‐‐ Donald Knuth

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'
‐‐ George Clooney

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.
‐‐ Brian Cox

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
‐‐ Chuck Todd

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.
‐‐ Dwight Howard

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
‐‐ Celine Dion

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
‐‐ John Lasseter

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.
‐‐ Richard Desmond

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
‐‐ Tracy Kidder

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
‐‐ Carol Gilligan

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
‐‐ Gary Zukav

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
‐‐ Helen Hayes

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.
‐‐ Thomas Dolby

The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He's an optimist, and he's a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.
‐‐ Parker Stevenson

The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.
‐‐ Jose Maria Aznar

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
‐‐ Laura Mennell

The harmonica is a great instrument.
‐‐ Toots Thielemans

The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.
‐‐ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

The harsh cold and windburn from hours of skiing does a lot of damage to my skin, so I try to keep my skin as moisturized as possible.
‐‐ Mikaela Shiffrin

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
‐‐ Henry Bonilla

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
‐‐ Larry Wall

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
‐‐ Thomas Shadwell