Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have to be sort of exploitive about seizing moments to write. Luckily, I still write most of my first drafts by hand, so I often work in bed when I can't sleep.

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

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

The women really seemed to like 'Rough Boy.'

I keep everything in Notepad: shopping lists, to-do lists, recipe tasting notes, my blog content calendar, recipe inspiration, blog-post drafts.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

I think I want to come straight to the NBA, but if the team who drafts me, they want me to stay in Europe and develop my game, I will stay.

By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

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

I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some champagne. It's like if someone's writing a novel: You write a series of drafts.

You know, we've had some pretty rough festival stages.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

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

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

Physically, I'm strong, I'm fast, I'm tough, I'm rough.

Every player goes through rough patches.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

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

You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

When times get rough, keep your head up.

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Gear not working on a live show - that is rough.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.

When things get rough you just kind of do it yourself.

'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts.

I'm pretty rough around the edges, but I'm a very open person.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

I'm a rough guy and I like it when fights get tough.

Thanks to my training in Balali village, I am rough and tough.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

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

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!