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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Corey Haim

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Norman Mailer

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

Hugh Laurie

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

Ioan Gruffudd

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

Emily Mortimer

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

Emanuel Ax

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

Mary-Louise Parker

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

Lea Michele

Los Angeles has been good to me.

Denis Waitley

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

Catherine McCormack

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

Albert Brooks

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

Andre Rieu

For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

Donald Trump

I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says'Oh, Donald Trump didn't talk about foreign policy'.

John Hagee

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Henny Youngman

Let's get up here before we get killed!

Oliver Herford

Many are called but few get up.