Overworked Quotes

I am busier than a whore working two beds.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.

My life is very much consumed with work.

I am really, really tired.

I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

The cow of many, well milked and badly fed.

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

The United States Postal Service is overworked and under-funded.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

It's hard to get me out of the office.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.