Worth Quotes

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.

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.

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.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!