John Dos Passos Quotes

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

By the sweat of your brow shall you get bread to eat.

We eat to live.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.