Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hirsch

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

James Mercer

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

Ishmael Reed

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

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 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.

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.

Kelly Slater

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

Katherine Jenkins

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

Karen Walker

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.

Keith Rothfus

Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.

Keith Sweat

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

Katrina Kaif

It's been great. I've been very lucky to work with more experienced actors early on in my career because I get a chance to learn from them. There is so much you can learn from them. You can just follow them and you'll be pretty safe.

Katrina Kaif

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you. Right now I am working on my career and trying to be genuine to my work. If you respect what you have got, God will give you what you need.

Katie Price

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

Kitty Carlisle

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

Kirstie Alley

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

Kim Harrison

In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al

Kevin O'Leary

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

Ken Buck

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

There's definitely a pressure to (gain weight) if you want to continue your college career at the Division I level. You have to have that size or they won't even look at you. You have to be pushing that 260-265 to even get looked at.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

As seniors, we're not going to judge our whole career off one game. We had pretty good careers.

All of us have something in our college careers that makes people wonder, can they get the job done?

Will Eisner

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.

Kobe Bryant

Absolutely. I'd trade it in a heartbeat. It's about getting to that elite level. That's what my career is about.

Michael Ian Black

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

Michael Douglas

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

Randy Pausch

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.