Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.
The work. . . was. . . so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was almost worn out, the screws being rusted with sweat from my hands and forehead, and my only remaining eye-piece being cracked. . . Fortunately invaluable oil-imraersion object-glass remained good.
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us. '
If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain. . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science.
It's called the pump, people - you got to experience it; it's one of the better highs in life, you don't need to shoot up for it, you don't need to snort it. All you got to do is sweat for it.
One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs. . . . Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me. It makes me sweat, I have to hide behind a cushion.
I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.