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I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family. -- Christian Audigier
I'm a big Tom Hardy fan. He dresses pretty stylish, right? -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice. -- Norman Wisdom
I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'. -- Stephen Lang
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. -- Seamus Heaney
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. -- Dan Brown
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad. -- Dick Van Dyke
I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me. -- Ryan Guzman
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. -- Carly Simon
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies. -- Danny DeVito
When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal. -- David Chase
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low -- Parker Stevenson
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low. -- Parker Stevenson
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training. -- Josephus Daniels
With over 70 licensees, not sure if there is much left. Maybe oxygen? Ed Hardy is unique in that we have a broad range of products and something for everyone. -- Christian Audigier
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible -- Parker Stevenson
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. -- Robert E. Howard
Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot. -- John Lennon
The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd. -- Christian Audigier
I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row. -- Suzanne Collins
I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life. -- Logan Marshall-Green
During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot -- Parker Stevenson
I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians. -- Steve Martin
I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people. -- Tom Hardy
Matt Hardy's quicker than a hiccup. -- Jim Ross
I love FranÃ§oise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing. -- Gabrielle Aplin
I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first." -Marcus Hardy -- Abbi Glines
I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy. -- Neil Gaiman
Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently. -- Terry Hoeppner
I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me. -- Lisa Kleypas
I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things. -- Lisa Kleypas
Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through. -- Horatio Nelson
Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you. -- Lisa Kleypas
Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy. -- Horatio Nelson
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. -- Emma Thompson
I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates -- Lisa Kleypas
Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason. -- Lisa Kleypas
Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty -- Lisa Kleypas
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice. -- Mu Xin
I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good. -- Ansel Elgort
My chest expanded and I suddenly wanted to beat on it with my fist. The girl was making me go all caveman." -Marcus Hardy -- Abbi Glines
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. -- Jane Gardam
English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. -- Jane Gardam
Kiss me, Hardy!' Weren't those Nelson's last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don't cry. We're still alive and we make a sensational team. -- Elizabeth Wein
Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a life. -- Manohla Dargis
I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv. -- Will Smith
Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be! -- Denis Waitley
Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy -- Amy Dumas
Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it. -- Billy Crystal
Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones -- Lisa Kleypas
Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities. -- David S.E. Zapanta
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible. -- Parker Stevenson
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life. -- Harvey Mackay
I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III. -- Will Packer
Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book! -- Stedman Graham
You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy -- Lisa Kleypas
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him. -- Lisa Kleypas
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful -- Mike Harding
I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot. -- Ryan Guzman
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one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all. -- Rebecca West
You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart. -- Lisa Kleypas
This horrible decade where all of us men tried to be individual rebels... by wearing the exact same flaming skull on a bedazzled Ed Hardy thermal. I have three of them, I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing with you. -- Christopher Titus
Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. -- Barry Lopez
How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones. -- Lisa Kleypas
During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot. -- Parker Stevenson
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. -- Gloria Steinem
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Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win. -- Lisa Kleypas
I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel. -- Walt Disney
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading. -- E. M. Delafield
I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant. -- Billy Crystal
We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world. -- Brian Henson
Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy. -- Matt Hardy
When it comes to do or die situations, Matt Hardy will not die. -- Matt Hardy
I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. -- Peter Smithers
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. -- Emily Bronte
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. -- John Wayne
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species. -- Laura Wade
My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie. -- Angelo Pellegrini
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. -- Alberto Manguel
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! -- Robert Burns
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer. -- Diane Ackerman
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse. -- Dave Barry
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..." -- John Edensor Littlewood
I definitely live to eat. I love food in every way imaginable, and it does not have to be fancy. Whether we stay in or go out, I like a hardy meal. My grandmother taught me how to cook, and it was all about no fuss and lots of it. -- Bill Rancic
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young. -- Dick Van Dyke
I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him. -- Dick Van Dyke
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100. -- Robert Kanigel
Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. -- James Wolcott
I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. -- Steve Martin
If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize. -- Bernard Levin
Happiness is a hardy annual. -- Ellen Glasgow
Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice. -- Chris Thile
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter. -- Louise Wilder
Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest. -- Watchman Nee
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- Alan Perlis
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting. -- Plutarch
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. -- Hannah More
Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust. -- Bill Buford
Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy -- Eric Gelman
In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present. -- Madonna Ciccone
Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning. -- Stefan Themerson
The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires. -- Martha Beck
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer. -- Richard Holt Hutton
Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials. -- Idries Shah
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. -- Jean Paul
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. -- Emily Bronte
The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable. -- Patricia Piccinini
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant. -- Morihei Ueshiba

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