Top 419 Roughly Quotes & Sayings

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

I spend roughly two out of every three nights at my house in Indiana.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

So the chances of you being sentenced to Death Row in America is roughly the same as you winning the lottery.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.

We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

In the House, you can predictably spend roughly four to seven days back home with family.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.

I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.