Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irvin Kershner

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Ina May Gaskin

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

Ina Garten

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

Idris Elba

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

Idris Elba

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Gloria Swanson

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

Gloria Steinem

How can I combine career and family?

Giorgio Armani

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

Gerard Arpey

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

Harry Reid

I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

J. Michael Straczynski

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

J. K. Rowling

I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Greg Kinnear

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

Grace Paley

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Grant Bowler

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.

George Herbert

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

George Herbert

Little wealth, little care.

Gene Hackman

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

Gene Kranz

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

Jessica Valenti

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

Jessica Simpson

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

Jerry Buss

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

Jennie Finch

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

Jennifer Aniston

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Gloria Estefan

I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

Ian Hart

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

Hugh Howey

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

Hugh Jackman

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

Hugh Jackman

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

If I stunk after a month, I was going to go home and be perfectly happy with my career and live the rest of my life as a dad.

If I can get leadership from him on and off the floor then the rest will take care of itself. I'm looking forward for him to have a big year next year.

Joycelyn Elders

If I could make any changes at all to the current health care system, you know I would start with education, education, education. You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.