Nose To The Grindstone Quotes

#1. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

Steven Tyler

#3. I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

Andy Roddick

#4. If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose,

Les Wexner

#5. When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.

Ben Schwartz

#6. One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

Maurice Sendak

#7. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Philip Roth

#8. I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.

T.C. Boyle

#9. I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Andy Roddick

#10. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

#11. Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Robert Boswell

#12. There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Stephnie Weir

#13. The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

Fred Allen

#14. Up until the twentieth century, traditional cultures (and this is still true of most cultures in the world) always believed that too high a view of yourself was the root cause of all the evil in the world.

Timothy J. Keller

#15. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. I am making an argument for the cyborg as a fiction mapping our social and bodily reality and as an imaginative resource suggesting some very fruitful couplings. Michael Foucault's biopolitics is a flaccid premonition of cyborg politics, a very open field.

Donna J. Haraway

#17. In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others)

Jan Karon

#18. I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

Vince Vaughn

#19. The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Byron Katie

#20. My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

Denis Leary

#21. We may not always fight well, and some days we may not be able to fight at all, but somehow we find out what we are made of by trying and beginning again.

Carew Papritz

#22. LEONATO O, she tore the letter into a thousand half-pence; railed at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her. 'I measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him, I should.

William Shakespeare

#23. The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

Elie Wiesel

#24. I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

Roseanne Barr

#25. Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#26. O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none receives a gift from the throne of mercy except through thee.

Pope Leo XIII