Worked Quotes

• A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Write
  • Worked

• I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Control
  • Devil
  • Worker

• His personality just worked. He did things that caught people's attention, but not in a bad way. In a funny way.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Attention
  • Personality
  • Peoples

• Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again

  

  Gene Watson
  • Together
  • Will
  • Again

• I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Directors
  • Worked
  • Few

• I once was poor myself. I worked to get where I am today and I've worked hard to spend $100,000 a year on my clothes and I've worked hard to earn $3 million a year. I deserve what I get because I worked for it.

  

  Liberace
  • Clothes
  • Deserve
  • Worked

• I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

  

  David Blackwell
  • Research
  • Interested
  • Areas

• My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Mother
  • Worked
  • Newspaper

• My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • People
  • Dad
  • Writer

• I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Worked
  • Impressions
  • Insist

• They asked me how much money I had, and I told them I had saved my every dime from working in the mills, which was about $300. Well, they told me the school tuition for a year was $900. But the man in charge of the school made me an offer I'll never forget it. He asked me if I was a gambler. He said if I paid the $300, he would take me on and if I worked hard and proved I had talent, somehow he'd find the rest of the tuition money for me.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Tuition

• I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she'd lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Never
  • Worked
  • Marilyn Monroe

• I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Worked

• Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Theatre
  • Stage
  • Worked

• John Coltrane was probably my deepest influence, along with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Jones, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, Ravi Shankar, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Oscar Peterson, John Lewis, Bill Evans, Yehudi Menuhin, McCoy Tyner, THE BEATLES, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarret, Glenn Gould, Aldo Ciccolini, Georgy Cziffra, Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, with whom I worked as a child.

  

  Patrick Moraz The Moody Blues
  • Child
  • Influence
  • Worked

• I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Music
  • Help
  • Win

• I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Genius
  • Worked
  • Casey Stengel

• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  

  Michelangelo
  • People
  • Worked
  • Mastery

• Me and him actually worked together once in a while and played against each other during the summer. Later on in the season, probably, we'll get much better and stronger.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Season

• If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Worked
  • Prayers
  • Hitler

• God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.

  

  Paulo Dybala
  • God
  • Gift
  • Worked

• I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

  

  Wayne White
  • Artists
  • Commercial
  • Ventures

• The times we worked harder to make the day stand out. Our story demanded that we change and so we did.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Change
  • Story
  • Worked

• I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Chance
  • Worked
  • Thin

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