Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Olds

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

Natalie Zea

I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

Noah Hawley

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.

Dick Cheney

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Dick Cheney

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

Dick Cheney

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years...we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

Dick Cheney

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

Dick Cheney

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.

Walter Benjamin

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

Walter Benjamin

There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Liz Torres

I never thought I had a career. I think Meryl Streep has a career. I have jobs that I am lucky to get... I'm one of those actresses who never turns down a part, no matter how small. I don't have the luxury of picking and choosing. I take everything.

Linden Ashby

I started out in theater, and then I got a job on a soap in New York. With a soap opera, its every day, all year long - there's no downtime, and you're shooting a show a day.

Linden Ashby

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

David Schwimmer

'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.

Daymond John

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

John Benjamin Hickey

The only advice I give to acting students is, 'Be nice to your underclassmen. You never know who might be in a position to help you get a job one day.'

Mark Cuban

Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

The prospects of a strong jobs report at the end of the week will offer some relief to US assets.

Wiley Wiggins

If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

Bonnie Raitt

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

Ben Carson

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Billie Whitelaw

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

Timothy Simons

It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around.