Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Cram

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Don Howe

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.

Dylan McDermott

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

Dylan Moran

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

Dylan Moran

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

Douglas Booth

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

Douglas Adams

Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.

Donnie Wahlberg

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

Donnie Wahlberg

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

Don Rickles

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

Corbin Bleu

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

Andy Grove

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Amy Pascal

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

Allen Iverson

God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.

Alison Sweeney

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

Alicia Machado

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

Alicia Machado

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

Anthony Jeselnik

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

Andrea Bocelli

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

George Vecsey

What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?

Agatha Christie

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Adam Shankman

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Abraham Flexner

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

Alex Rodriguez

We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.

Alex Rodriguez

Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.

Alex Rodriguez

I want to build a positive image that will last my career.

Alex Rodriguez

I've learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Aaron Paul

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

Claire McCaskill

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

Daniel Pipes

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Daniel Radcliffe

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'