Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

Bill Cosby

There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

Ricky Ponting

We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy.

Barack Obama

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Raymond Burr

I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.

Malala Yousafzai

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

We'll probably start the week lower. The jobs report was very strong.

We were going 1,000 miles an hour, and I don't want to start over again. It's part of my job to think about this, but I didn't.

Phyllis McGinley

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Three 2-9 seasons wear on you. It got old real fast. I couldn't really stop it back then, but now that we're having some success, it's a job and I want it to be that way.

Travis got some nice looks at the basket. He did a nice job shooting the ball. We have to have a little more of that.

Today's jobs number would support the idea of a soft landing, or at least moderation in growth.

Ludwig von Mises

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

Ludwig von Mises

The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

Ludwig von Mises

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

Gary Sinise

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I wasn't getting job offers in Michigan, only for temporary work with low pay.

Chuck Schumer

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

Most of the jobs are entry-level: tellers, assemblers and retail sales,

Most musicians - other than the top 6 or 7 percent - have a second job and our second job is to play on the street.

Mike Brady's been with me for 20 years and there isn't a job he doesn't do well,

We have people moving here to take teaching jobs. They need to understand the population they're working with.

We have one launch down and one to go. We have a job to finish.

Byron Scott

We just did a terrible job defensively for pretty much the whole game.

We just couldn't get into our offense. We just did a poor job of executing.

You can give a lot of that to their pressure. In the second half, we did a better job getting into our offense.

Tom Mitchell

You don't do a job like this all your life because you like it. You do it because there are rewards. And that's what they want to take away from us.

Jeff Abbott

You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.

We've got people in mind for those jobs but we'll wait and see.

Debbie Stabenow

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.

We've lost 2.5 million manufacturing jobs since the recession hit,

We've known for years we're working ourselves out of a job.