Obnoxiously difficult quotes

[nedzeppelin1453]

Thanks, but that wasn't it. I recall it had a hyphenated word.

Maybe this one:

"Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head."

[gavinl]

Yes that was it NedZeppelin...i have subsequently had the quote again and got it quite easily this time...don't know why it stumped me so badly the first time! Thanks for posting.

[Deanna48]

Kin Hubbard -- Politics makes strange postmasters.

[Fudi]

"A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. "
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

[Deanna48]

John Milton -- "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
I've had this one several times and it always takes me forever!

[Fudi]

"The wildest colts make the best horses. "
— Plutarch

[Fudi]

Check out #14 on this forum ... Ben seemed to have a lot to say about this topic.

"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
— Benjamin Franklin

Awfully hard this with this version too, I think.

[Fudi]

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable."
— "Weird Al" Yankovic

It's been around (this quote) for more than a year and the recordholder, currently, is maradnu at 62 seconds.

[momn8r]

Unattributed: Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them.

[ernests]

"Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning. "
— Douglas Horton

[ernests]

"Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. "
— Lord Byron

[Deanna48]

Joan Baez -- "Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."

[Deanna48]

Alan Watts -- "But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

[Deanna48]

Charles Baudelaire -- "Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!"

[momn8r]

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
— Abraham Cowley