Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Leila Janah

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Damon Allen

Those are all the hidden stigmas they put on people early in their careers -- that you're a running quarterback,

Ricky Carmichael

We don't have long careers in this sport and I'm just trying to win as much as I can while I can.

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.

Ali Farahnakian

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

Alex Cox

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

Alex Ferguson

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

Alec Baldwin

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

Alec Baldwin

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

Aaron Paul

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

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.

Tom Brokaw

I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles?

Talia Shire

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

Stephen Parker

Motivating more young people to take an interest in understanding and learning science at school is important not only because science careers are exciting and rewarding, but also because young people need to know about how science and technology is changing our world -- their world!. Science in School is just one of the initiatives being supported by the Commission to take this forward.

Louis Jourdan

There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

Jamie Moyer

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

Jamie Redknapp

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

Jason Bateman

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Jason Bateman

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

January Jones

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page