Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.
If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society.
When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
Finding initial funds is the primary barrier most entrepreneurs face. Many people don't have three or six months' worth of savings to free themselves up to do months of unpaid legwork.
I knew my worth. I knew I could be one of the best 2-guards in the league. I'm not going to be bashful about it anymore.
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Beyonce is a very hard-working woman. Astrologically, for whatever it's worth, she's a Virgo - like Michael Jackson, a hard worker.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it.
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
