Work Quotes
-
The Folly had last been refurbished in the 1930s when the British establishment firmly believed that central heating was the work, if not of the devil per se, then definitely evil foreigners bent on weakening the hardy British spirit.
-
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
-
Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.
-
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
-
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
-
I'm glad I've had the comic work. I plan to do others, but I could lay it down if I had to choose. I hope I don't have to, though.
-
It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.
-
One way or another we all work for our vice.
-
Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.
-
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.
-
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
-
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
-
Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today it is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.
-
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
-
In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
-
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
-
There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
-
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
-
Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
-
My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.
-
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
-
You can work with someone who's an amazing actor, and if they hate the role they're doing, it's uncomfortable to watch and uncomfortable to work with. When you're working with someone who loves what they're doing, it's just such a joy.
-
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
-
People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.
