Working Quotes

• There are 2 million other parts on the space shuttle that are working perfectly right now.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Working
  • Space Shuttle

• The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truth
  • Working
  • Plain

• It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Different
  • Working
  • Immediacy

• If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Working
  • Stealing

• And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Music
  • Solar
  • Cinematography

• Working with Meryl Streep I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Working
  • Discovery
  • Actress

• I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Fascinated

• I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Thought
  • Audiences
  • George

• Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

  Karl Evang
  • Human
  • Relation
  • Environmental

• ..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Working
  • Meaning
  • Ant

• I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Vision
  • Wanted
  • Veins

• I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

  

  Josh Silver
  • People
  • Working
  • Producer

• Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

  

  Paul Hawken
  • Earth
  • Working
  • Rich

• Working at the 'Review', if anything, the impression you got was, 'I'll never be good enough. I'll never work hard enough. I'll never be devoted enough.' These people are staying up all night over their sentences!

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Enough
  • Working
  • Impression

• I don't mind working. And anyway, what would I do? I don't like to watch TV. I'm out of touch with my own generation. And I have you and Mom to thank for that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Working
  • Generation
  • Watch TV

• I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personality
  • Artists
  • Names

• We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.

  

  Warren Mundine
  • Father
  • Morning
  • Philosophy

• Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Language
  • Working
  • Intense

• In 'Stree', I had a great time working with the whole team and Dinu, being the producer and one of the most important people. And now we are doing another film together, and I'm sure there will be a couple of more films in the future.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Important
  • Couple
  • Being

• It's important for everyone - working moms especially - to find moments to ground themselves and connect with their own breath.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Breath

• The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Wisdom
  • My Life
  • Benefit

• When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Working
  • Sibling
  • Guidelines

• I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

  

  Suzy Kendall
  • Working
  • Sexy
  • Labeled

• I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

  

  Stockard Channing
  • People
  • Time
  • Working

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