Work Quotes
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
-- Ernest Hemingway
“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.”
-- Jesse Ventura
“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
-- Evan Esar