Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Arthur D. Levinson

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Dick Vermeil

My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work.

Jason Calacanis

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

F. Schumacher

I have enough hobbies to keep me busy. It's possible that I will look for a new sport -- like, perhaps, horse riding.

Al Yankovic

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

Anais Nin

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

Anne Stevenson

A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.

David A. Bednar

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

Andy Serkis

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

Aziz Ansari

I prefer being totally sober myself.

Janice Dickinson

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Dana Plato

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

Dick DeGuerin

He didn't see them. He could have been stone-cold sober and had this accident.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm dead sober. This is just me.

George R. R. Martin

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

George R. R. Martin

I stayed sober for this?

Jimmy Hester

He struggles. But he's sober today. He was sober yesterday, he was sober the day before that.

Dan Wheldon

They like the wine. I didn't see a sober (sponsor).