Top 17 Workhorse Quotes

#1. I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse.

Sean Bean

#2. War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who's less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can't cover your I.O.U.s, you lose.

David Weber

#3. I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Jewel

#4. At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#5. Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

#6. He could just never see anything coming. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him inevitable yet invisible

John Green

#7. Taking pains, working hard, not flaunting his or her chops so much as relying on them, the pop artisan teeters on a fine fulcrum between the stern, sell-the-product morality of the workhorse and the artist's urge to discover a pattern in, or derive a meaning from, the random facts of the world.

Michael Chabon

#8. It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

John C. Reilly

#9. A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun - and no challenge - for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.

Timothy Zahn

#10. By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse.

Saul David

#11. I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

Kevin Bacon

#12. I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

Landon Liboiron

#13. I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

Joe Namath

#14. Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Jerry Leiber

#15. You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

Greg Gutfeld

#16. Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.

Frans De Waal

#17. Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

Tommy Lee

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