Rough Week Quotes

#1. I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup! I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza. And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I've had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick?

Vince Vaughn

#2. Chess is one long regret.

Stephen Leacock

#3. What darkness to you is light to me

Jules Verne

#4. To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.

Heather Marie Adkins

#5. Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Tom Berenger

#6. Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Whitey Ford

#7. Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset ...

John Geddes

#8. The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

Seth MacFarlane

#9. I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

Shakira

#10. It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.

Gordon Brown

#11. I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

Leslie Jones

#12. My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.

Irv Kupcinet

#13. I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Scarlett Johansson

#14. If I didn't kick his ass every day? he wouldn't be worth anything.

Hillary Clinton

#15. We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.

Kathleen Sebelius

#16. The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

Holly Black

#17. The middle class and the world class might live in the same world, but they do not share the same level of freedom. While this infuriates the masses, it motivates the ambitious to get rich.

Steve Siebold

#18. Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

Graham Greene

#19. Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

Aaron Spelling

#20. For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

Gene Luen Yang