Quotations: Work
I can't describe the invigoration, the acceleration of intellectual interest, in getting away from all this tangle of ant-hill history.
Ramer, in J.R.R. Tolkien's Notion-Club Papers, p. 204
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston