Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

Al Jarreau

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Chris Carmack

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Chord Overstreet

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

Chloe Grace Moretz

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.

Abraham Lincoln

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

Darrell Waltrip

I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you.

John C. Maxwell

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

John Avery

When the road you're on begins to crumble, forge ahead - better it crumble behind you than ahead of you.

Edsger Dijkstra

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

J. B. Priestley

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

Werner Herzog

Get used to the bear behind you.

Sheila Johnson

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Lloyd Alexander

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

Justin Cronin

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.