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- Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
- People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
- A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
- Phillip Lopate
- Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"
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