Hard Days Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I do my mathematics in my head. I sit down for a hard day's work and I write nothing all day. I just think. And I walk up and down because that helps keep me awake, it keeps the blood circulating, and I think and think.

  Michael Atiyah

  Writing, Thinking, Blood

  "'I'm a bit of a jack of all trades'". Interview with James Meek, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2004.

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• There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

  Judd Apatow

  Long, People, Entertainment

  "Director Nicholas Stoller and Producer Judd Apatow Talk The Five-Year Engagement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

  Bill Barich

  Silence, Too Much, Faults

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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• Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandma, Men, Piano

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• The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Mean, Few Words

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• There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

  Kirsten Prout

  Sinking, Pillow, Feathers

  Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 3, 2007.

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• Okay, I’m dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from…from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary) (Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.) Oh, like I’m any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Stress, Mind

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• Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Charity, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4474, Manonmani Publishers

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• Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Computer, Behinds

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• After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Home, House

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

  Aly Raisman

  Strength, Adversity, Good Day

  "Aly Raisman's Tips For Going After What You Want" by Macey Hall, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

  Gene Hill

  Friendship, Dog, Nice

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• People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

  Herman Melville

  Peace, Food, Men

  Herman Melville (1967). “Moby-Dick: An authoritative text”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

  Pat Metheny

  Hard Times, Night, Saws

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• Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

  Eric Roberts

  Marijuana, Smoking, Three

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• It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

  Neil Cavuto

  Rude, Pops, Shows

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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• One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Heart, Commitment, Maturity

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• Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Dog, Journey, Men

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• After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

  Elvis Presley

  Training, Rattlesnakes, Basic Training

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