Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

It was rough having my body develop, fluctuate and become fleshier in front of the 'Popworld' cameras.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Wherever you come from, even if it's a rough neighbourhood, there are always good people who know what they want to do.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it's what made Shannon Briggs, it's who I am.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

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

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.

Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Going through rough times will only make me and my team stronger.

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

It's funny to say its fun to explore someone's really rough time, but it is. It's exciting.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know.

On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

I'd like to be a scout, go watch the games, and try and find a diamond in the rough.

Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him.

We all know Cinderella had a rough start, so I really relate to her in many ways.

You have to take the rough with the smooth - that's what ski-jumping is all about. You always expect the worst.

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.