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Quotes About Rough

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.
~ Jay Heinrichs
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
~ Joseph Joubert
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
~ Henry Adams
Now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
~ William Butler Yeats
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
~ William Butler Yeats
News is only the first rough draft of history.
~ Alan Barth
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
~ Juvenal
Pero dentro de mí todo es tan áspero, tan espinoso.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
The way of the pioneer is always rough.
~ Harvey S. Firestone
When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is way too rough, the issue of bycatch - 'plastic is too big, plastic is too small.'
~ Boyan Slat
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
~ Jim Brown
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 swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
~ Jo Brand
From the rough, I'd use a 6-iron, play the ball back an inch or two and swing down on a steeper angle to catch the ball first. It also helps to aim slightly left and open the clubface at address. You'll get more height on the shot, and the club will cut through the grass more easily.
~ Ernie Els
Because of the grass and open face, I take one more club for shots from the rough, unless the ball is sitting on top of dry grass. Then, I use more loft and swing softer, trying to hit it about 70 percent to avoid a flyer over the green.
~ Ernie Els
I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don't know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.
~ Rebel Wilson
He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.
~ Rhyannon Byrd
They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war.
~ Richard Rhodes
Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways.
~ Rick Riordan
You're the proverbial diamond in the rough, she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.
~ Katherine Paterson
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
~ William Shakespeare
Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
~ Whitey Ford
I look like a 'Sesame Street' character in real life when I wake up. But not like the cute ones, like kind of like the ones that look a little rough around the edges.
~ Eric Nam
The [bowling] ball flew out jerkily, sailed about four feet, hit the lane with a loud crack , and then promptly entered the gutter. Roman walked up beside me, and we silently watched the ball complete its journey. 'Are you always that rough with balls?' he asked finally. 'Most men don't complain.
~ Richelle Mead