#worth

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#because #bellow #his #knows #me

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#could #learn #meeting #more #ourselves

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aphorism #best #consists #exclusively #greatest

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#being #difficulties #find #get #great

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#giving #manner #more #than #worth

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ↗

— Jim Courier

#dangerous #results #riding #self-worth #very

Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#again #been #box #buying #collecting

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#assessment #back #calculations #came #device

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#cheap #doing #expensive #experiments #necessarily