Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael A. Stackpole

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

Earl Watson

I wouldn't want to come to work with handprints all over my cheeks.

I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.

Alexander Ovechkin

I work to make shots, I try to do something, always to do something,

Nazr Mohammed

I work on a lot of different stuff.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

If they want it so badly, let them do a little work for it,

She said, no problem, I will not work for him,

Gene Luen Yang

'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

She had to work for every one of her baskets tonight.

Patti Smith

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Dave King

I have more work than I know what to do with,

Shelley Conn

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

Joel Edgerton

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Jerome K. Jerome

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Jenny Slate

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Jeff Lynne

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

Jim Gaffigan

If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.

Jill McCorkle

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Jennifer Lopez

[Having perosonal trainer for the movie 'The back-up plan'] I felt like I had just given birth. He was like, "You can't eat anything but this. You've got to do what I say." So along with doing the film, I did this kind of disciplined workout regimen, because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff, and I wanted to be true to character, because I'm Method. But it took a lot of hard work to get there. You can rest assured in the fact that it's all gone now.

Jennifer Lopez

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

Jean Ingelow

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

Jean Ingelow

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

James C. Collins

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

James A. Michener

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

James A. Garfield

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Baldwin

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Jackson Browne

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

George Harrison

The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.