Hard Rock Performance

Famous quotes containing the words hard, rock and/or performance:

“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

““O what unlucky streak
Twisting inside me, made me break the line?
What was the rock my gliding childhood struck,
And what bright unreal path has led me here?””
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother.... Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can’t even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)