Hardly Quotes

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin

Life, Time, Second

I hardly ever go out when I'm home.
Brooke Burke

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
Phil Collins

Hate, Successful, Sorry

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'
Ellen Burstyn

Money, Through, Thought

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
Benny Hill

Hot, Breathe, Pants

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks Adams

Life, Friendship, Friend

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
Joyce Maynard

Mother, Children, Parents

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
Ben Okri

Life, Poetry, Past

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
Renee Fleming

Works, Colleagues, Envious

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
Robert Smith

Someone, Old, Put

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright

Knowledge, Today, Strange

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.
Emily Blunt

Done, Give, Break

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
Jello Biafra

America, Attention, Anybody

I hardly even leave my own house.
Bill Nighy

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding

Person, Adversity, Honest

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding

Adversity, Honest, Whether

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
P. G. Wodehouse

Life, Made, Her

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
Donella Meadows

Someone, Different, Try

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
Stephen Gardiner

Small, Found, Apart

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
Stephen Gardiner

Style, Remarkable, Surprising

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
Malcolm Turnbull

Change, Science, Action

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg Simmel

Life, Time, Person

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
Max Beckmann

Real, Enough, Means

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
Jo Nesbo

Great, Writing, Before

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
Werner Herzog

Work, Working, Fast

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Alone, Forward, Personal

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!
Julie Bowen

Big, Matter, Write

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Another, Afraid, Anywhere

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.
John McCarthy

Same, Anyone, Noticed

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater

Time, Experience, Sense

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