Best Rough Quotes

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you’ll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

There’s a look of mischief in his eyes. ‘Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.’ I’m sorry,’ I say, ‘if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that’s rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

People who don’t want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don’t give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They’re made by sharing secrets you’d never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are ‘grown,’ not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

I never had good hair growing up – just had the worst nothing hair – and until I started being rough with it, even ’til this day I’m actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I’ve been like that it’s been pretty darn good to me.

I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times…. but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is.

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn’t matter if it’s a story or a novel, I find that when it’s still fresh in my mind I’m either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I’m unable to make substantive edits of any value.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

What are you doing? she cried in protest. Playing, he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Be positive, be positive. It’s rough out there, but don’t succumb. Don’t succumb to the cynicism in the world.

While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one’s going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one’s going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I’m rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?

I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect’s legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Regret is an uneven hand,
a rough palm at the cheek — tender
and calloused.

Right now I’m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it’s a lot of good work. It’s fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

If you’re rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it’s going to stay out of the holes – rough sections become smoother.

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough.

God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

The biggest thing that I don’t like about L.A. is the sort of 2 a.m. shutdown of everything. It really kind of stagnates the nightlife. It’s very hard to casually have fun in Los Angeles. If you want to go out and have fun it’s like a full-time job, you have to really prepare, and call ahead, and get on a list, and know somebody… It’s really rough to relax here.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!