Hardest Hitting Quotes & Sayings

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited. — Rupert Holmes

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it. — Jillian Bell

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? — Euripides

The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories ; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this. — Harriet Harman

The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange ... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing. — Colin Firth

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say. — Michael Hyatt

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon, — Roald Dahl

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war. — Ludacris

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works. — Stuart J. Russell

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much. — Glenn Beck

But after a while, obeying a new script that has just occurred to her, she begins to behave differently from the way she has acted the last two times they have met. She begins a false performance of openness, as if she has succumbed to his persuasiveness. — Natasha Walter

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square. — Pete Rose

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe ... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe. — Michael Jai White

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland. — Jim Butcher

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is ... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature. — Simon Schama

Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling. — E. Haldeman-Julius