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.

Bobby Knight

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Steve Oestreicher

Now it's in the hands of the Legislature. We're going to see what they're going to do with it.

Jim Edmonds

Sometimes you have to throw your hands up.

Stan Schmidt

It was unbelievable. Who would have ever thought that people from the Dakotas would shake hands with the Pope?

Jim Fox

It was very therapeutic for me. It was actually like I got to lay my hands on her. I couldn't wait for Saturday.

Denise Neel

It was very exciting. It was tense. We knew we did well. But we knew it was in the judges hands so all we could do was sit and wait.

Mike Modano

It was tough. That's just what you go through. It's just part of the business, ... After it's done, you shake hands and everything's fine.

Philip Hoffman

It was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on ... I liked it all.

Brock Farrel

I should have had two hands on the ball, and I didn't.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.