Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cameron Diaz

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

Al Franken

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

James Woods

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.

Diane Cilento

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Diane Ackerman

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

Dan Totheroh

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Dan Uggla

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

Bret Michaels

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

Bonnie Tyler

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Damien Newton

We don't want to see a lot more bonding. We want it to be pay as you go.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Robert Kiyosaki

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

Robert Kiyosaki

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich

Tom Guiry

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Douglas Adams

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Albert Camus

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

Angela Carter

The end of exile is the end of being.

Andre Breton

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

William Shakespeare

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

Joshua Cohen

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.