Quotes About Rough

Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the most beautiful things. Garbage cans at the ends of alleyways look like they've been up all night talking with each other. Doorways with peeling paint look like the wise lines around an old feller's eyes.

These were the soldiers of the Second Brigade—the Irish Brigade—and they were braver and rougher than almost any other unit in the entire Federal army. "When anything absurd, forlorn, or desperate was to be attempted," as one English war correspondent wrote, "the Irish Brigade was called upon." The

The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel.

His skin is so hard and rough, it's like shaking a piece of tree bark.

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

These three conditions of human society are expressed by the rough, the split and the polished stone.

1, and preferably a little higher. So we'll suggest a guideline that we've taken to calling the Rule of Four: It takes four good things to overcome one bad thing. We offer this as a rough gauge. We're not claiming to have discovered a universal constant like the speed of light or Avogadro's number. It's a rule of thumb, not a law of nature. It doesn't apply to

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.

Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

I must look like hammered shit." "Actually, you look like you were executed last week.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I recognize primaries are difficult things. We had a field of outstanding candidates. And primaries get a little bit rough. And it takes some time for people to get beyond those things.

The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.

she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways;

I am listening to what fear teaches. I will never be gone. I am a scar, a report from the frontlines, a talisman, a resurrection, a rough place on the chin of complacency.

I Sanmenoniti erano conosciuti per il loro populismo e i loro metodi rozzi, ispirati a San Menonio, santo che nei quadri è raffigurato con un randello in mano, come il fante di bastoni, ed è noto ai fedeli per aver convertito interi paesi di montagna a mazzate.

well, as Auden wondered: Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

His features were blunt and brutish, as if drawn at speed by an untalented child.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.