Rough Quotes
870 quotes by 734 authors
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's…
— Kevin Bacon
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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
— David Bailey
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
— Justin Bieber
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's…
— Bjork
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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they…
— Christina Aguilera
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with…
— Christina Aguilera
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to…
— Jo Brand
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
— Rupert Brooke
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
— Thomas Browne
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in…
— Samuel Butler
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Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying,…
— Graydon Carter
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be…
— Harlan Coben
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I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting.…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in…
— Jennifer Aniston
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
— William Shakespeare
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
— Jim Bishop
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