Hard

Famous quotes containing the word hard:

    If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute—I’ve got to have them.
    Ken Dodd (b. 1931)

    Turtle Goddess
    she of the hard shell
    soft underneath
    awaits enormously
    in a dark grotto
    the young Heroes....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    If we would enjoy the most intimate society with that in each of us which is without, or above, being spoken to, we must not only be silent, but commonly so far apart bodily that we cannot possibly hear each other’s voice in any case. Referred to this standard, speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)