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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

Alexander Smith

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Ayn Rand

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

Ernest Hemingway

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Ernest Bramah

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

Sherman Alexie

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Rachel Zoe

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

Steven Tyler

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Charles Studd

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Caroline Corr

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Bob Dylan

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Demetri Martin

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

Rafael Chaves

I thought he was the pitcher he can be during those innings. He was nails after the beginning.

Judith Curry

This new study really nails down that link.

Jonathan Swift

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Maisie Williams

If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'