Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.
It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.
The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
Since having three kids, and the responsibility that goes with it, I know what it's like to graft for money.
I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.
Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.