Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like my teacher Marilynne Robinson, she only writes one draft. I've thought about this a lot; I think it's because she writes it 80 times in her head before it comes out.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

I feel like whatever team drafts me I'd fit into because they're going to get the best receiver in the draft. Regardless of if they really need a receiver early or not, the way I'm going to come in and work, they're going to get the guy they hoped they drafted and be excited about it.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

I myself had a rough life and it's been a struggle but I believe my gift is the ability to connect with everyone.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.

Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.

I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

I was making Marvel Studios movies, Amy Pascal was running Sony. Occasionally, she would share drafts with certain people at the studio and I would read them, and see cuts of the movies. But what I've learned with is that I'm no help whatsoever giving passive comments on other people's projects.

When we were playing, it was rough and tough. Even superstars like me fouled out a lot.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

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

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board, showing them to trusted confidantes from in and outside the photo world. It started to take its shape naturally over time until I kind of ran out of ideas.

I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

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

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

I haven't done Botox. Although there are a few women on screen who do, and if you don't do it, which I don't, you look pretty rough by comparison.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

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.

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.