“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."” ThinkingWayGivingLooksBookMatterHardDoneWholeHoursWalksRoomsBehindsWeekKeysPersonalityPagesWhole LifeGrayTraitsSister Author:Eleanor Brown
“Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.” WayMeanHardFacesValuesBehindsDirectorsLike MeProducersConvincingGood WayDon't Like Me Author:Amanda Plummer
“Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” PeopleWayBelieveHardWholeFactsJobsGoalBehindsCompanyRichCreationRepublicanInvestmentLeavingCleverEntrepreneurshipJustifyFree MarketRich PeopleJob Creation Author:Newt Gingrich
“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.” WayDoeHardStatesGovernmentLastsUnitedBehindsUnited StatesImagineWallExtremesDecadesSignificanceSecrecyLeaksSecretive Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.” HardHandsEyeCertainFallForgetBehindsPracticeSuccessfulFailingMastersDegreesDenyDrawingPainterHis EyesFacility Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsHardHandsGovernmentTodayNextBehindsResponsibilityFrontsSonHard WorkKingsResponsibleBoxesTendenciesOfficialsMy SonNext TimeMonarchyBallots Author:Abdallah II
“It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!” HardBehindsResponsibilityAcceptingFailure Author:Vaclav Havel
“Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.” KnowsLifeDoeHardBehindsFinalsPlotOccasionalBehind Your Back Author:Glen Duncan
“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.” ThinkingWritingTryingRealHardPlayFactsJoyPoetryProcessBehindsPracticeSeriousPoetLuckyAimExcuseTechniqueContactAbandonOur ThoughtsExhilarating Author:Tracy K. Smith
“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.” IfsWantTwoDifferentSometimesHardBigsCertainCan DoPerfectLevelsBehindsCreativeFourHonestFootballFairsEnglandMirrorsClubsLondonBoundariesLikesManagersSoccerProductiveChairmanTransfersTempoEnglish Society Author:Jens Lehmann
“My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.” PeopleFeelsHardDreamJobsCoursesStuffResultsBehindsWonderWatchesHard WorkSceneDiscoveryBehind The Scenes Author:David Copperfield
“I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.” KnowsDoeHardRunningBehindsKnow HowGymTreadmills Author:Kevin Hart