Top 100 Hard Time Quotes
#1. Did you know, and this is a fact here, did you know that most spiders are ugly? It's true. The woman spiders have it really hard time of it. I saw it on a documentary. Why do you think the Black Widow kills the guy she mates with? Shame, that's why - Tanith Low
Derek Landy
#2. For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question
Rick Yancey
#3. I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'
Julia Ormond
#4. He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.
David Haye
#5. There are different kinds of predators. There are the kinds who target the weak. And there are those with more of a Dexter vibe who don't lose sleep if a child abuser has a hard time on the way to the station.
Jonathan Maberry
#6. Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.
Paul Thurrott
#7. Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.
Max Landis
#8. They think I am glass. But I am not. I am not delicate. I am stone. If they want to break me, they will have a hard time of it. I am unbreakable.
Jennifer Ellision
#9. 'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.
Elizabeth Berkley
#10. The hard time is when people remembers you, because you need to be with them and its easy when they forgets you.
Nutan Bajracharya
#11. All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.
Chandler Parsons
#12. I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
Catherine Opie
#13. You're going to have a hard time in life if you let every little mistake bother you, he said. Life is good, son. Enjoy it.
M O Walsh
#14. I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.
Mika Brzezinski
#15. I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.
Jim Broadbent
#16. I would love someone to follow me around with a boom box so I could have a soundtrack to record my daily moments. That would be awesome! I also wouldn't complain if I had someone doing my hair - I have a hard time with my hair.
Analeigh Tipton
#17. One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
Maria Shriver
#18. I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
#19. For the first time in his life, Michael understood why real soldiers coming back from real wars often had a hard time getting over the things they'd seen and done. And had done to them. If Michael had a soul, it was starting to leak out of his hopes.
James Dashner
#20. I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.
Edward Furlong
#21. Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think some people will have a hard time eating sardines in olive oil or pickled sardines for breakfast. I guess that is why I am still single.
David H. Murdock
#22. I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.
Andriy Shevchenko
#23. I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.
Aleksandar Hemon
#25. When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.
Shelby Foote
#26. Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
Kristin Cashore
#27. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
Lewis H. Lapham
#28. I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I'm paraphrasing), he's talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you're not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.
Moby
#29. I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
Selma Blair
#30. I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.
Henry Mosquera
#31. We know that you must be very Upset and sad But just to let you know That we are here for you Should you need Help and support At this very sad and hard time That you must be going through
Julie McGregor
#32. Well, even if she does get her way, we can keep it small. Just us. Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet."
I giggled. " That does sound better." It wouldn't feel very official if Emmett read the vows, which was a plus. But I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face.
Stephenie Meyer
#33. I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play ... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Kim Gordon
#34. I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.
Melissa Leo
#35. I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.
Jeff Sessions
#36. I couldn't be messing around and acting like an 11-year-old if we expected to compete well. I wanted to compete well, because it was great to see the looks in the eyes of men-like, "Wow, I am having a hard time beating this kid."
Karch Kiraly
#37. I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
Karl Marlantes
#38. Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?
Anne Frank
#39. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.
Travis Bradberry
#40. Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.
Lindsey Graham
#41. One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
Samuel Larsen
#42. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex Flinn
#43. I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
Elizabeth Banks
#44. I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!
Jesse McCartney
#45. 'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation.
Tim Daly
#46. He had a hard time fitting in. A sense of isolation left over from all those years. Not quite peer pressure. More like peer rejection.
Jamie Ford
#47. It's a hard time to be human. We know too much
and too little.
Ellen Bass
#48. Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides
Christopher Flavin
#50. Once her tears started, she always had hard time stopping, to the extent that i wondered how she was able to hold them in the first place.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#51. The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
Reggie White
#52. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.
K'naan
#53. 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.
Henrik Lundqvist
#54. I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.
Jessica Marais
#55. Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Gavin Bryars
#56. The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Nat King Cole
#57. It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.
Eric Stoltz
#58. Now, why did he have a hard time believing that? ... Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#59. I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
Jan Brett
#60. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
Q-Tip
#61. I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.
Shane Carruth
#62. Okay, Troy ... you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you ... cause ... like you say ... she's innocent ... and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now ... this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.
August Wilson
#63. When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.
Arianna Huffington
#64. I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff.
Russell Crowe
#65. Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.
David Icke
#66. After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
Unknown
#67. The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
Jodie Foster
#68. You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
Sonny Rollins
#69. Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
Hanna Rosin
#70. If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
Jerry Only
#71. After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
Ornette Coleman
#72. I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.
Andrew McMahon
#73. We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.
Selena
#74. The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.
Megyn Kelly
#75. People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
Judy Holliday
#76. I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
Bob Mayer
#77. I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.
Chris Lilley
#78. People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#79. I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.
Peter Hook
#80. He meets my gaze again, his eyes raw and heated, his breaths ragged. "This has never been about gratitude, Catherine."
I'm having a hard time breathing.
"Tell me you believe me.
K.A. Tucker
#81. I shrugged. "I guess that guys who'd never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would," I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.
Tammara Webber
#82. I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.
Katie Aselton
#83. A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#84. Hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the
Suzanne Collins
#85. There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.
Tessa Thompson
#86. God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
Mario Puzo
#87. A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
Paul Theroux
#88. Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail.
Ransom Riggs
#89. You don't have half such a hard time as I do," said Jo. "How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you're ready to fly out the window or cry?
Louisa May Alcott
#90. I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
Rami Malek
#91. Hearing that people read my books when they were sick, or that the books helped them find an escape when they were having a hard time ... stuff like that makes all the hard work pay off.
Sarah J. Maas
#92. Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson's wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.
Gayle Forman
#93. Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.
Jessica Pare
#94. Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.
James Rosenquist
#95. You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.
Laurie Metcalf
#96. Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#97. Here's a curious fact about human beings: we have a really hard time realizing that something isn't there.
Josh Kaufman
#98. Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.
Ice Cube
#99. Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days ... We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.
Chuck D
#100. I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.
Margaret Cho
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