Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.