Worth Quotes

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.