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.

Elizabeth Hurley

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

Gail Carriger

His lordship can eat my fat—

D. J. MacHale

Not just chubby fat, I'm talkin' gordo

Drew Carey

It sucks being fat, you know.

Judy Riley

He'll be talking about where trans fats are found on the food label.

Karen Ross

Look at the ingredients label and keep trans fats as low as possible.

Jo Brand

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them

JaMarcus Russell

Fats just stayed at my apartment, rested, watched the news. I've had people sleeping on the floor, the couch, everywhere. It's been pretty crazy.

Bible Bible

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Jane Austen

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Anthony de Mello

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Gaston Bachelard

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described.

Gregory Bateson

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

John Fowles

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

John Archibald Wheeler

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

Roland Barthes

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.