Hardly Quotes

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.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.