Quotes About Earning Your Keep

#1. Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

John Maus

#2. I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

Barbara Bush

#3. The world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

Marie Corelli

#4. The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

Diane Cilento

#5. As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.

Jay Roach

#6. How about you keep the tens of millions you nearly prevented me from earning for you last year and we call it even?

Michael Lewis

#7. My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

Elmore Leonard

#8. It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Tamara Mellon

#9. A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

Laura Wasser

#10. We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. Sometimes I think that when we say our honour prevents us from doing this or
that we deceive ourselves, and our real motive is vanity.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. He takes another bite of the hairy fruit and marvels how the bullet from his Winchester did to her head what his teeth did to her kiwi.

Laurence Beveridge

#13. If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

#14. I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Sam Shepard

#15. Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.

William Gibson

#16. It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Sophie Turner

#17. No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give

Howard Norman

#19. The English peace is the peace of the grave.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

Pierre Soulages

#21. You got amphetamine eyes.

Rod Stewart

#22. My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#23. Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.

David Brainerd

#24. A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore De Balzac

#25. With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Ralph Adams Cram