Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or sign:
“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)
“For I choose that my remembrances of him should be pleasing, affecting, religious. I will love him as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship, and not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as men do to those whom they fear. A passage read from his discourses, a moving provocation to works like his, any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)