Hardly Quotes

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

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

I hardly went to school.

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

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

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.

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

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

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

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.