Quotes on Tough

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.