Quote by Alasdair Gray Download Open image “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” — Alasdair Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Work for this life as if you going to live forever and work for hereafter as if you going to die right now. — Hammody Ali Copy Share Image
Work for the world as if you would be alive forever , and work for the Hereafter as if you would die tomorrow — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Work that mobilizes you 24 hours per day and makes you responsible to all of the people in the country is worth propelling yourself… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“At last she interrupted with a harsh rattle of laughter. "Oh, yes, I like this book! Crazy hopes of a glamorous, rich, colorful life… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police." A character's response to a discussion about eating from the… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me." "That's typical of life, isn't it?” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards or talked… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings,… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
