#worth

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#appeal #continue #hear #her #i

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. ↗

— John Gould

#anything #copy #everything #eyesight #i

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless. ↗

— David Gower

#make #opposition #plans #plays #then

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

— Kenneth Grahame

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #boats #doing #half

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#changed #chose #civil #course #doing

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

— Fannie Hurst

#another #any #getting #into #name

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#also #care #coming #dollars #ever

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#becomes #common #common sense #equation #essence

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#age #audacious #bashed #being #coals

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#doubt #never #out #pain #pleasure