Famous Quotes & Sayings

We love watching Steve's film career flourish. We love watching his films, and we love participating in everybody's success.

When you look at my career and what I've done, this is a natural, perfect fit.

Dave Gibbons

One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.

While I was never really into pageants, my teacher convinced me to try out and my pageant career started in 2004, when I won the Miss Massachusetts Pre-teen Pageant. I thought it would be a great way to get involved with community service.

Without really intending to, I kind of went up the ranks in museum management positions, ... I didn't plan on making a career of it, but it seems I really, really enjoy the work.

Clayton Christensen

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

We need to get some reassurance that we are going to get job training for career placement.

We need to get rid of career politicians who are part of the problem.

Alan Bennett

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.

Andie MacDowell

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

Adrienne Bailon

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

Joyce Maynard

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

John Malkovich

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

You can tell that she could have made a big career in porn.

Ted Sundquist

We wanted to ensure a player who meant so much to this organization would finish his career here.

We all agreed, yes, it needs to be done. It just so happened that I was in a part of my career that I had a little more time than the others to do it.

Women are mainly mothers and have their own careers, so it's kind of hard to find someone who would be effective. They just can't drop their careers for something they won't be reimbursed for.

Margaret Atwood

The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra push, and that extra dollop of confidence.

Al Groh

To a large extent, his dreams and aspirations of his college career are going to be packed into one season, and from a team standpoint, it's going to be important that we get a real big season out of him. He's going to be one of the featured performers this year, and is going to have to make things happen when he gets the ball.

When people are looking for federal judges, they're looking for people who are safe, sound and reliable. These are criteria that favor people who have chosen conventional careers in the law.

When other people have told you your whole career you can't do it, to do it is pretty special. I just want to have fun while it's here.

John Travolta

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

Dusty Baker

There have been times in my career when they couldn't find anything and it still hurt, and there were times when there wasn't anything and it was something. We hope it ends up nothing, like it's been.

There have been some good quarterbacks to come through here. Bruce, as far as his college career goes, can match any of them. And he does have potential to play at the next level.

There has never been any ego or resentment. Jim has always been gracious and shared his career with everybody else in the group.

Billy Bush

When did you ever cross the line in your career where you thought you shouldn't have done that?

We're thrilled with the outcome. It's from our perspective a huge win, because (Ashby) has never been about the money. It's been about being able to move his career forward.

Joe Manchin

We need to do a much better job of educating our children about their career choices.

We've certainly demonstrated that there are at least a core group of people who get elected to public office who will ... put their careers on the line to do what they think is right irrespective of what the shifting winds of popular opinion might be. And we are content to let history be the ultimate judges.

Sugata Mitra

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

Hunter Hayes

Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'