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Worth Quotes

He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 23. Walton on Victor.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for - Samwise Gamgee

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

– Samwise Gamgee

Character Sam the hobbit, played by Sean Astin, in The Two Towers movie. Inspired by the books of J. R. R. Tolkien.

I’ve learned to wait ’til an idea is worth making. That’s not really a lesson I’ve learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there’s no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.

– H. Jon Benjamin

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

– Henny Youngman

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

– Guy Fieri

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

– Georges Jacques Danton

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly.

– Gypsy Rose Lee

I won’t go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

– Howard Jacobson

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Well, first of all, I’m worth every penny.

– Howard Stern

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I’d be worth millions and millions.

– Heather Mills

I was the Playmate editor for ‘Playboy’ for two years. I produced two years’ worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.

– Holly Madison

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

– George Bernard Shaw

Back to Methuselah, Part 2.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

– Howard Schultz

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

– Henry Rollins

It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth.

– George M. Humphrey

I’ve been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I’ve been given, then it’s all worth it.

– Heather Matarazzo

I’ve always affirmed, nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

– Goodluck Jonathan

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

– G. M. Trevelyan

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

– Harrison Birtwistle

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn’t matter what you’re shooting or how much you’re being paid – it’s not worth it.

– Henry Rollins

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars’ worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn’t.

– Garet Garrett

There’s no single person on this planet that’s worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

– Holly Holm

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

– Howard Gardner

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

– Gavyn Davies

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren’t the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

– Graeme Le Saux

A thing well done is worth doing.

– Hugh Leonard

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

– Henry Rollins

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody’s backside, it’s worth paying attention.

– Guy Spier

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

– Henry David Thoreau

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