Working Quotes

7856 Working quotes by 5240 unique authors

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. — Amy Lowell
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a… — Hart Crane
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors… — Debbie Allen
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. — Ivan Bunin
I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to… — Claire McCaskill
The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax. — Michele Bachmann
If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects… — Thom Yorke
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the… — Arthur Miller
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect,… — PJ Harvey
Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A… — Wesley Clark
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess… — Bobby Fischer
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a best-selling children's author?… — Brian Jacques
There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When… — Joy Harjo
There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working — Carol Alt
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which… — John D. Rockefeller
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives… — Studs Terkel
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned… — Studs Terkel
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you. — James T. Farrell
In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as… — Malcolm X
We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July.… — Arlen Specter
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. — Earl Warren
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert — June Allyson
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged… — Audre Lorde
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in… — Dr. John

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