Worth Quotes

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.