The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in…

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

— Justin Timberlake

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I never saw the light of day at Bouley. I remember I would bring home a roll of toilet paper a week because we…

— Christina Tosi

“Canluum, Lan paid as little attention to the stares he”

— Robert Jordan

“I paid her a little visit, and I used a coupon with the purchase.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm not going to go out and shoot 20 shots a game because I got paid a little bit more money or anything like that.

— Joe Ingles

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

— Robert Reich

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

— Patricia Ireland

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making…

— Steve Almond

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may…

— Criss Jami

“The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows…

— David A. Cleinman

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather…

— James Surowiecki

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

— Jessica Lynch

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel