Rough Quotes

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

We're like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you'll never use us again.

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

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.

Caricature is rough truth.

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.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

My tattoos are reminders to hang in there when things get rough.

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.

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

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

When times get rough, keep your head up.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

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?

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.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

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.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

My life was pretty rough.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

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.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I love hitting into the rough because it gets me close to the people.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.