Tough Couple Quotes

#1. It's been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

John Hodgman

#2. If there is a subject that is my own, my dear Ellen, as a writer I mean, it is the persistent shape-shifting life of things long-dead but not vanished.

A.S. Byatt

#3. Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do.

Karen Mason

#4. 'You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.'
'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger.
'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.

Joseph Heller

#5. Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.

Ryan Kalil

#6. I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Anna Quindlen

#7. Five words that were the hardest words I would ever have to say,
Five pillars of my faith that couldn't save him that day.
Five rivers, the Panj Aab, that didn't flow through his veins.
Five minutes that changed our world forever.

Ruth Ahmed

#8. American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.

Nick Fradiani

#9. Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

Nouman Ali Khan

#10. Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Mary Ellen Chase

#11. You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.

T. Colin Campbell

#12. During the really tough first couple of years in prison, I felt like the 23rd Psalm was dictated by the Lord specifically for POWs.

Leo Thorsness

#13. It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but I think everyone gets their moment in time. That other couple definitely has their moment too, and they have to make some tough decisions.

Zal Batmanglij

#14. A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

Jacki Weaver

#16. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Chief Joseph

#17. The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.

Lauren DeStefano

#18. If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

Eric Braeden

#19. When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

John Ridley

#20. It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"

Remi Aubuchon

#21. He wore his hair in a way that suggested he'd just rolled out of bed after thrashing all night. In an earlier decade, your friends would have told you,"Man, your hair's a mess. Go fix it."
Now they say,"Whoa, dude, cool do.

Marshall Thornton

#22. Victory comes late
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it

Emily Dickinson

#23. The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

Mike Trout

#24. I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.

David Letterman

#25. The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this.

Renee Montagne

#26. Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Walter Lippmann

#27. Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

Amy Dickinson

#28. Isn't that petty?"
"Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu decide to confront each other, vistas of pettiness open up that you and I can barely comprehend.

Eleanor Arnason

#29. You're at a tough age. You want to be treated like an adult, but you still want kid benefits." "I don't feel like a kid." "You're turning fourteen in a couple of months. Ever heard the expression: youth is wasted on the young?

Andrew Peterson

#30. Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Karl Malone

#31. I think there's a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I'd like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

Lino Rulli

#32. Merik turned away, pretending not to hear. Not to care. But the truth was, he did hear and he did care.

Susan Dennard

#33. Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

Jeff Overton

#34. Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Ledisi

#35. It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

Lawrence Kasdan