Top 17 Working Stiff Quotes
#1. I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
Harry Bridges
#2. The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
Ricardo Semler
#4. If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.
Mark Fuhrman
#5. To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.
Stephen King
#6. I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
Peter O'Toole
#7. Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
Alan Dean Foster
#8. The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.
Tracey Ullman
#9. Yet here she sat on the sofa, working rather than dealing with the subject that seemed to fill the small flat, pressing against the walls, keeping the atmosphere perpetually stiff with tension. Commentators
Robert Galbraith
#11. It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.
James Fenton
#12. No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
Gus Van Sant
#13. It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.
Pope Benedict XVI
#14. When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.
Molly Crabapple
#15. I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
Franka Potente
#16. I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp