Hardy Quotes - Page 6

• I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

  Will Smith

  Dad, Perfect Days, Comedian

  Source: www.getreadytorock.com

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• In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

  Madonna Ciccone

  America, Cocktails, Prey

  "I am a Tip-Top Starlet" by Garry Trudeau, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

  Martha Beck

  Hurt, Heart, Desire

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• I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

  Robert Stone

  Reading, Writing, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Race

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• I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Depressing, Gone, Fiction

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.14, Milkweed Editions

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• Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.

  C. Sommerville

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy enough to bloom when nights are still frosty and snow still lingers in the ravines.

  Howard Evans

  Night, Sight, Yellow

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• Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

  Jeff Hardy

  Girl, Art, Wrestling

  Source: www.si.com

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• I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Squash, Lucky

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.

  Laetitia Casta

  Children, Book, Jealous

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• This horrible decade where all of us men tried to be individual rebels... by wearing the exact same flaming skull on a bedazzled Ed Hardy thermal. I have three of them, I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing with you.

  Christopher Titus

  Men, Skulls, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Growing Up, School, Gay

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• Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.

  Watchman Nee

  Would Be, Able, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Agriculture, Grandfather

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Dream

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• The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice.

  Chris Thile

  Voice, Numbers, Knows

  "Chris Thile Looks Back To Bach". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, digital.vpr.net. August 11, 2013.

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• Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

  John Cleese

  Eye, Hands, Comedian

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

  Billy Crystal

  Father, Kids, Years

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use, Done, Research

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, Reason, Bigs

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Taken, Breathing, Nurse

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.171, St. Martin's Press

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• "Hello," he greeted her cheerfully. "You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here?"
  Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. "The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time."

  Tamora Pierce

  Trying, Firsts, Lips

  "Alanna: The First Adventure". Book by Tamora Pierce, September 1983.

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• Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

  Idries Shah

  Hard Work, People, Effort

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.74, Octagon Press Ltd

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• When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Space, Needs

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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