Quotes About Daunting

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.

If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

Of all miracles, none is more daunting than normal. To be—to become—normal. This gift seemingly so ordinary is not a gift given to all who seek it.

There will also be a number of other novels which were bequeathed in an unfinished state to Robert, who has taken on the daunting task of completing Dave's work, so there will be co-authored Dave Duncan novels.

What it does serve to remind us is that learning formal English grammar from a nineteenth-century textbook, without a qualified teacher, was a truly daunting task, as anyone who picks up a copy of Kirkham's will readily see.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

He looked as if it would cost a thousand dollars to shake hands with him.

You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Translating' property is more than an ideology of conquest. It is a clash of cultures, ideologies that demonstrates the difficulty of translation.The colonists benefit from the encounter with the Indians but it is disturbing and daunting.

I have to say that filming 'The Night Manager' was not just amazing but also very daunting at first. I used to describe myself as the token plebeian surrounded by all your national treasures. All that glittering talent in one place; I knew Hugh from Fry and Laurie videos that my grandpa used to watch, and Tom Hollander's 'Rev' is hilarious.

In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not focussing on more daunting and intractable problems, whether personal or social.

Even from a distance, he looked like somebody you didn't want to know better.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

The idea of throwing away my depression, of having to create a whole personality, a whole way of living and being that did not contain misery as its leitmotif, was daunting.

But no one would ever have dared make fun of her, even in private: there was something about her that inspired fear and discouraged meanness.

Curtis Blaydes' ground and pound is really scary. Like, really, really scary.

I must say I'm a bit more daunted about changing a nappy than I am making a tackle... unless it's Ngani Laumape or Ben Lam.

What I've always found about going to a tailor is that it's a little bit daunting. You don't know exactly what it's going to look like, it's hard to know who to go to, and it's still a very expensive proposition.