The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… It sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds—to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me...

It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at...

Loving you is like walking between rain drops.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.

It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have...

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

I don’t ‘handle’ people. It’s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It’s very easy to say whatever’s going to appease them and then turn around and...

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It’s easy.

Being an artist is not easy – I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It’s a huge sacrifice.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard....

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I come from a world where the word ‘trauma’ doesn’t exist, because we are too poor. I didn’t have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn’t...

If you don’t know a lot about figure skating, it’s easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it’s so romantic and so theatrical.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record – it’s easy to discover who’s in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don’t appear on any organization chart.

One of the things that I’m really proud of is that I have really good timing. It’s very easy for me to see what’s coming up and it’s no coincidence that I went headfirst into...

Although there is no solution that is easy, and there is no one formula that will work for everyone with a heartache or a concern, there is One who cares very much about your situation,...

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

…being with you was so easy and natural – there was no strain – I never had to guard my words…

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

Life itself is simple…it’s just not easy.

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname – he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north...

It is easy; just be to have.

It’s easy to make a mess when you’re not the one who has to clean it up.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

It’s easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style,...

I never cake someone who doesn’t want to be caked – at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I’m pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who...

It’s okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive – some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

The first information I consume in the morning is probably ‘The New York Times’ and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories...

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn’t make the chicken sick, so it has...

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it’s a great game.

As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it’s too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.

Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.

When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it’s easy and it’s fun. You hardly call it work.

I’d rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That’s not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it’s too easy.

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but...

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they’ll let me do. I think that’s easy for me.

Color comes very easy to me. And watercolors have a particular tendency to stay grounded, unlike digital color. I find that digital color wants to go wild, to lose control and be as bright and...

There’s nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.

I have advice for people – period – who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s easy, the places that...