Working Quotes

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.