Top 100 It's Hard Quotes
#1. I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. It's so damn hard to bloom ... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without ... love,
Dean Koontz
#3. When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.
Russell Brand
#4. It's easy to hide in a statement. It's hard to hide between statements," Cook said.
Atul Gawande
#5. I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.
Meiko
#6. I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.
Rivers Cuomo
#8. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.
DJ Quik
#9. With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
Emily VanCamp
#10. It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them.
Andrew Gurland
#11. You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Ellen DeGeneres
#12. If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.
Palmer Luckey
#13. Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
Mel Gibson
#14. Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
Pete Carroll
#15. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.
Mac Davis
#16. I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
Garry Shandling
#17. Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.
Scarlett Johansson
#18. Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.
Kami Garcia
#19. I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.
Matt Damon
#20. It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
Iris Chang
#21. When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.
Amanda Seyfried
#23. From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.
Carrie Brownstein
#24. Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
Sean Parker
#25. It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too.
Patty Loveless
#26. The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.
Hope Davis
#27. My face is distinct. It's hard to confuse me with anyone else.
DJ Qualls
#28. I do karate because it makes the rest of life easy. That is to say, karate training, if done properly, is tough: it's hard work, with little reward because your sensei never compliments you.
Scott Langley
#29. Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.
Ville Valo
#30. It's hard navigating life in a leaky boat. Meet me on the water, Lord.
Crissy Shreve
#31. It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.
Iris Johansen
#32. A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.
Daniel Humm
#33. Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
Wilbur Smith
#34. I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.
Brit Marling
#35. Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So
Donella H. Meadows
#37. When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
John Landis Mason
#38. It's hard to remember this when you lose someone that you care for so much, but God is still God. He's holding Henry now, but he still holds us too. We're just on opposite ends of eternity and one day we'll all meet again.
Harper Whitmore
#39. Encryption ... is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government ... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.
Esther Dyson
#40. This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. It's hard to explain," she says. "I would say that I'm more spiritual than religious at this point." "What does that even mean?" I stare upward at the gleaming stars. "To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality.
Bill Konigsberg
#42. I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!
Alexander Chee
#43. I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
Zach Woods
#44. I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
Molly Ringwald
#45. The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.
Bear Bryant
#46. I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
Edwidge Danticat
#47. It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college.
Stewart Butterfield
#48. Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.
Chad Harbach
#49. It's hard to be good at something that is completely new to you.
Peter Jumrukovski
#50. It's hard to live mansion style when you have a mobile home budget
Bryon Decker
#51. It's hard to imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Interview with the Vampire.
Anne Rice
#52. It's hard enough to be a heterosexual playing gay and not having the gay gestures.
Christopher Sieber
#53. You won't forget a woman like her, easily anyway.
Once you cross paths with Magic it's hard to see life the same.
Nikki Rowe
#54. You want your kids to do better than you did," he said. "That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's hard when they outgrow you. It hurts like hell.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#55. I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
Jason Mraz
#56. She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
Jenny Han
#57. It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.
Lindsay Lohan
#58. It's hard to punish kids for trying to pull their family out of poverty.
Joelle Charbonneau
#59. It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.
Carson Daly
#60. Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.
Rick Remender
#61. It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.
Zinedine Zidane
#62. It's hard to imagine a scenario where someone would say no to pancakes.
David Levithan
#63. It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#64. What's wrong?" "It's hard. It's too fucking hard. I don't know if this is going to work. We might as well cut our throats. Just cut our own throats." "You mustn't talk like that." "Yeah. Right.
Neil Gaiman
#65. So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.
Tupac Shakur
#66. I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
Michael Mann
#67. There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.
Mat Kearney
#68. Poor Cecil. It's hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home.
Franny Billingsley
#69. The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you.
Mindy Kaling
#70. Sexism justifies itself by commandeering our logic and, quietly, the limits of what is constrict our ideas of what should be. Misogyny comes to taste like air, feel like gravity: so common we barely notice it, so entrenched it's hard to conceive of a world without it. So
Alexandra Brodsky
#71. We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.
Kerri Walsh
#72. Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
Zach Woods
#73. I guess you get to a point where you look at that pain as if it were in front of you three feet away lying in a box, an open box, in a window somewhere. It's hard and cold, like a bar of metal. You just look at it there and say, Alright, I'll take it, I'll buy it. That's what it is.
Lydia Davis
#74. It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.
Sarah Noffke
#75. It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness ...
James Salter
#76. A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.
Michael Dumontier
#77. It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
Lois Lowry
#78. The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
Bryan Fuller
#79. It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
Jeanette Winterson
#80. What do you want me to do? he whispers into the empty air.
It's hard to know.
Oh Jimmy, you were so funny.
Don't let me down.
From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face.
Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go.
Margaret Atwood
#81. It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating.
Liz Tuccillo
#83. Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.
Michelle Kwan
#84. I'm sarcastic and facetious. It's hard to find those people on first encounter. I can be nice, but I don't want nice friends. I want funny, gregarious, sarcastic, and smart friends.
Rachel Bertsche
#85. When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.
Nuno Bettencourt
#86. When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details ... you just hold on to the feelings.
Colleen Hoover
#87. I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.
Donna Karan
#88. That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
Yasmin Paige
#89. I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things.
Andy Biersack
#90. It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.
Morris Chestnut
#91. It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
David Mamet
#92. People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
Taylor Hanson
#93. Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.
Daniel Craig
#94. Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.
Rory Freedman
#95. It's hard to wait around for something that you know might never happen ...
But it's even harder to give up when you know it's everything you want.
Anonymous
#96. I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.
Julie Anne Peters
#97. It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.
Bob Ross
#98. It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.
Candace Bushnell
#99. Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.
CM Punk
#100. Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.
Martin Clunes
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