Rough Quotes

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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. — Daniel Defoe
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of… — Terry Eagleton
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. — George Eliot
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. — Eminem
Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not… — Tina Fey
I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to. — Mia Hamm
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. — Juvenal
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you… — Sam Kinison
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if… — Shia LaBeouf
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. — David Letterman
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on… — Jerry Lewis
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as… — Jose Marti
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred… — James McAvoy
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne
Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble… — Nathan Myhrvold
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri

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