Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabel Wilkerson

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.

Ira Glass

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

Ira Glass

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

Ira Glass

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Ilie Nastase

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Imelda Staunton

Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

Imelda Staunton

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols, they were just doing their jobs.

Jack McKeon

Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.

Jack Lynch

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

Jack McBrayer

I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

Jack Markell

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

Jack Ma

My job is to help more people have jobs.

Jack Ma

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

Jack Ma

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

Jack Ma

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

Jack Nicklaus

Bob Ford is a great guy. He's a great friend. He's done a great job at Oakmont and Seminole. He's a very quiet man. He doesn't get in the middle of everything, but he understands what a nice job he's done at both places.

Jack Nicklaus

I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

Jack Nicklaus

The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job.

Jack Nicholson

The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

Jack Nicholson

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

Jack Nicholson

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

Jack Nicholson

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

Jack Nicholson

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Jack Nicholson

Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.

Jack Kemp

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

Jack Kemp

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

Jack Kemp

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

Jack Kemp

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Jack Kemp

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Jack Gilbert

Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

Jack Buck

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

Jack Benny

Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've ever met. And I'll say that to his face - even if it costs me my job.

J. D. Hayworth

Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.