Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

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.

Bruce Willis

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

Casey Neistat

The right time is always right now.

Andrew Solomon

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Ann Patchett

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

Adam Clayton

It's never the right time to take a particular stand.

Dan Rather

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

Shahrukh Khan

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

Leonard Orr

I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

Diane von Furstenberg

I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

David Sedaris

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

David Ruffin

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Earl Campbell

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Diane Abbott

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Bernard Marcus

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

C. S. Lewis

Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Brownie McGhee

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.