Women

"As a woman I have no country.  As a woman my country is the whole world."  Virginia Woolf

"Russian women are not very good for figure skating.  They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example.  They are just too big and stron."  Alexei Mishin, Russian Olympic skating coach

"We all know it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs.  It is an act of kindness on the part of women."  Alexander McCall Smith,  The Full Cupboard of Life: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency  

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.  Luckily, this is not difficult!"  Charlotte Whitton

"Women are maddening.  They pretend to be so adult.  Then just like that, they sink down to your level."  Third Rock from the Sun

"Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms.  Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies.  And they call this progress."  Allison Pearson

Word

"Almost the right word is never good enough."  Mark Twain

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."  Mother Theresa

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."  Phillip K. Dick  

"The three nicest words are: 'I love you.'"  Unknown

"The three worst words are: 'Some assembly required.'"  Unknown

"The worst two words you can say are: 'I can't.'"  Unknown

"Words are magic."  Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson,  The Machine Crusade (Dune Series) and Max (John Cusack - 2002)

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."  Rudyard Kipling

"Words are things and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."  Lord Byron

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to do at that moment."  Robert Benchley

"Everyone works, but first we must pray."  Monk of St. Athos monastery

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."  Theodore Roosevelt 

"I don't have anything against work.  I just figure why deprive somebody who really loves it."  Dobie Gillis

"I have seen the future and it wears a hairnet."  Zits

"I never did a day's work in my life.  It was all fun."  Thomas Edison

"I work!  Every single day, I'm traveling around the world."  Paris Hilton

"If I was going to get a job, I'd want to be a movie star."  Janet Evanovich,  Two for the Dough: A Stephanie Plum Novel

"If you really want something in life, you have to work for it!  Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers."  Homer Simpson,  The Simpsons - The Complete First Season

"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."  OR "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."    James M. Barrie

"It wouldn't make sense that, having had a career for my entire life ... that somehow overnight I would turn into a pumpkin."  Lynne Cheney

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:  those who do the work and those who take the credit.  He told me to be in the first group; there was much less competition there."  Indira Gandhi

"Nothing comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."  Booker T. Washington

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”  Henry Ford

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."  Aristotle

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."  Plato

"The brain is a wonderful organ.  It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."  Robert Frost

"The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."  Thomas Jefferson

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."  Richard Bach

"The world is full of willing people.  Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."  Robert Frost  

"Unless your work is your hobby, always be a pro."  Jimmy the Bartender,  Men's Health

"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own.  The better he does it, the easier it looks."  Eden Phillpotts

"Where the whole man is involved, there is no work."  Marshall McLuhan

"Work can always wait; for there is always more work."  Diane Lee Wilson,  To Ride the Gods' Own Stallion

"You can earn $504 a week if you work the full 168 hours."  Herman

"You get out there.  You do your job.  And you always do the best you can."  Kelly Ripa

"You should not confuse your career with your life."  Unknown

"You've got to work like it's a religious experience."  Charlie Trotter

"Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."  Buddha