Quotes About Struggle

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.