Famous quotes containing the word rough:
“What we have found in this country, and maybe were more aware of it now, is one problem that weve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
I am my brothers keeper, and hes sleeping pretty rough these days.”
—Derek, Archbishop Worlock (b. 1920)
“Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“If a girls a stewardess, she might as well forget it after twenty-six. They no longer have compulsory retirement, but the girls get into a rut at that age. A lot of them start showing the rough life theyve lived.”
—Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)