More quotations tagged with “work”
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
—Mahalia Jackson
How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends.
—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
—Peter Ustinov
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
—Ronald Reagan