Thankless Quotes - Page 2

• I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Would Be, Scrutiny

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Ungrateful, Mars, World

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.33, Barnes & Noble Publishing

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

  John McEnroe

  Jobs, Guy, Like Me

  34 Copy quote

• Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

  Matt Groening

  Jobs

  5 Copy quote

• When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  Dakota Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Social Network

  9 Copy quote

• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Hate, Writing, Mind

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview With David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

  Kristen Stewart

  Art, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

  Edward Young

  Nature, Men, Unjust

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts, etc”, p.16

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  Felix Adler

  Teacher, Office

  5 Copy quote

• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Easter, Sunday, Dark

  19 Copy quote

• I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Sleep, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Saul Kussiel Padover (1956). “A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters”

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

  Ben Stein

  Occupation, Interest

  Source: www.sandpointonline.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sea, Forever, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

  John Naughton

  Character, Cat, Awkward

  John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.209, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

  David Hemmings

  Tasks, Management, Hotel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Florida

  73 Copy quote

• Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

  Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

  Tasks, Opponents, Economics

  13 Copy quote

• I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Dog, Silly, Sleep

  20 Copy quote

• L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

  Nick Cave

  Levels, Occupation, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  4 Copy quote

• Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Way, Failing, Betray

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..

  4 Copy quote

  Show source