Difficult Quotes - Page 21

• Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

  Jared Diamond

  Air, Bird, Design

  12 Copy quote

• I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

  Richard Cobden

  Light, Law, People

  8 Copy quote

• Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

  Martin Bashir

  Children, Literature, Coverage

  7 Copy quote

• In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

  Garrett Hardin

  Zero, Fall, Abortion

  7 Copy quote

• The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, War, Character

  4 Copy quote

• It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Men, Views

  26 Copy quote

• Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Blood, Names

  17 Copy quote

• I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

  Paul Rudd

  Funny, Silly, Party

  4 Copy quote

• Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Reality, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Moving, Golf, Elephants

  "Monty out to cut elephant into bite-size chunks" by Mark Reason, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 6, 2005.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.

  Les Miles

  Team, School, Player

  57 Copy quote

• The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

  Lee Yoon-ki

  Struggle, Character, Difficult Situations

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.

  Antonio Banderas

  Trying, Directors, Different

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Drama, School, Passion

  "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

  Ethan Coen

  Running, Animal, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.

  David Copperfield

  Sacrifice, Winning, Careers

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.

  Adam Sandler

  Children, Sleep, Kids

  "DUB Q&A: Adam Sandler". Press conference, www.dubmagazine.com. June 9, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

  Grace Slick

  Hippie, Thinking, Annoyed

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Sea, Cooking, Done

  12 Copy quote

• We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Writing

  Source: www.sheknows.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

  Mike Tyson

  Simple, Common Sense, Common

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of the reason I fell in love with the trail is because it was so extremely difficult, more difficult than the marathons and Ironmans I'd competed in. Not just physically but emotionally it was a new challenge, as well. It really helped me to learn and grow in so many ways.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Challenges, Way, Marathon

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source