America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor’s appointment. – Greg Abbott
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied… my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. – Heinrich Schliemann
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person’s taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. – Henry Flynt
I find that it’s nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else’s feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. – Herb Alpert
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don’t just bring that back. I always like to say it’s like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn’t going to work. – Howard Graham Buffett
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don’t really focus on celebrity status. – George Dzundza
I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner. – Hanya Yanagihara
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it’s not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. – Harvey Pekar
It is a big adjustment but I’ve always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: ‘I retired from golf to go to work.’ That sums it up for me. – Greg Rusedski
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe. – Henry Miller
I’m a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I’m always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips. – Heidi Klum
As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won’t work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. – Heston Blumenthal
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing. – George William Russell
When actors get a bad name for diva behavior – I’ve never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard. – Hayley Atwell
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. – Henry Ford
Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it’s still not in the place that it should be. – Harley Quinn Smith
The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I’m camping. Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make. – Guy Fieri
I’m vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you’d get any feedback. – Howard Hodgkin
I’ve just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it’s great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It’s so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done. – Gil Gerard
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don’t know why. It’s not something conscious or that I’m doing on purpose. – Gaspard Ulliel
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I’m not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. – Harlan Coben
I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it. – Hunter S. Thompson
I don’t do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself. – Harrison Ford
We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together. – Hamid Karzai