Legwork Quotes & Sayings

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat — Sammy Nelson

I have come not to teach but to awaken. — Meher Baba

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed. — Kate Williams

You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart! — Avijeet Das

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. — Joseph Alsop

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. — Zack De La Rocha

I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement
they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah ... — Sarah Jessica Parker

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing — David Halberstam

I like the idea of federal employees licensed to carry weapons who are also heavily medicated; it just works for me on all sorts of levels. — MaryJanice Davidson

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special. — Allison Jones

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back. — Ken Follett

If you're right, they aren't the deceased," Murphy said. "They're the victims. Big difference. Which is it?" "Wish I could say," I said. "But the only evidence that could prove it one way or another is leaking out onto the floor. If we get a survivor, maybe I could take a peek and see, but barring that, we're stuck with legwork." Murphy sighed and looked down. "Two suicide pacts could - technically - be a coincidence. Three of them, no way it's natural. This feels more like something's MO. Could it be another one of those Skavis vampires?" "They gun for loners," I said, shaking my head. "These — Jim Butcher

As it stood, I was having to do way more legwork than I'd planned when I decided on these boots. — Darynda Jones

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze. — Tim Berners-Lee

I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people. — Michael Azerrad

Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs. — Jimmy Breslin

now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Roseville Nidea