Bill Cosby Quotes

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

I work myself into the ground.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I worked my face off.

It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.

It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour.

I know you can't fight forever, and there's only so long you can do this.

I have to continue to work, to keep going, to always fight. This is the way.

I always try with everything I have left.

I don't want to take it easy.

I've been working very hard for a long time.

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

The legs feed the wolf.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will