Hardly Quotes

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I hardly went to school.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

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.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

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

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

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!

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

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.

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.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

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

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.