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.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....

Abraham Lincoln

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

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.

Charlize Theron

I've always known I wanted a family.

Bernard Marcus

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

Diane Abbott

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

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.

Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.