Worth Quotes

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?