Go To Work Quotes

I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

The sad reality is that girl-on-girl hate is such a big issue in schools, at work, or online, and it never made any sense to me because, as women, we know how awesome other women can be.

I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

When I was a baby, I wore my mom's Chanel pumps - to be able to say that I work with Karl Lagerfeld is a dream come true.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

I've got mates who have got married through meeting on Internet dating sites, so it really can work out - even if sometimes it does go disastrously wrong.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

With this film, 'Need For Speed, ' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.