When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I - but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?
I need to find the right guy and the right family. The day I find something worth my while, I will get married and have kids, too.
I wanted Jordans, but I had to get Rugged Outbacks. I had to take it for what it was worth, but now I'm able to give back and it feels real good.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.
I've driven cars worth $6 million and now I'm not as nervous because I do it a lot, but I have to keep my wits about me because if I touch anything or scrape one rim, anything could go wrong.
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers.
Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
