1.
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
Johnny Cash
Life is difficult so one must be resilient.
2.
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.
Seve Ballesteros
3.
Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
Justin Bieber
4.
Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
William H. Macy
5.
We're like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you'll never use us again.
Hannibal
6.
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
Catherine Malandrino
7.
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
9.
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
Robert W. Service
10.
I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.
Erin Wasson
12.
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem
13.
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
Rumi
14.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
Vikram Seth
15.
To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.
Harriet Rubin
16.
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
Ernie Els
17.
My tattoos are reminders to hang in there when things get rough.
Demi Lovato
18.
One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.
Caitlin Thomas
19.
You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.
Babyface
21.
Regret is an uneven hand,
a rough palm at the cheek — tender
and calloused.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
22.
I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.
Mia Hamm
23.
When times get rough, keep your head up.
CC Sabathia
24.
It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?
Norman Schwarzkopf
25.
I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.
Dee Dee Ramone
26.
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
David Bailey
28.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Eliot
29.
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
Philip Massinger
31.
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
Rick Springfield
32.
Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.
Frank Zappa
33.
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
George Orwell
36.
Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.
Donald Trump
38.
The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong.
The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.
Norman Vincent Peale
40.
I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.
Bobby Lashley
41.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
Roger Daltrey
42.
I find it very, very hard doing what the law on DACA says exactly to do, and you know, the law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws. I'm talking the existing law is very rough. As far as the new order, the new order is going to be very much tailored to the - what I consider to be a very bad decision.
Donald Trump
43.
There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.
Andrew Bujalski
45.
At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.
Jason Lutes
46.
I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.
Chris Bosh
47.
Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rashid Khalidi
48.
What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
Linda Howard
49.
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
Bernard Crick
50.
Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9)
Mary E. Pearson