Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

Casey Neistat

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

Casey Affleck

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

Carl Karcher

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

Carl Levin

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security

Carl Levin

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

Carl Icahn

CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

Carl Lewis

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

Carl Hiaasen

Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

Louis Sachar

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.

Javier Bardem

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

We've all worked together at one time or another. We all respect each other. Any one of us can do the job as sheriff of San Joaquin County.

James Williams

We've all learned a lot about each other's jobs.

We struggled with that last week. We've got to get the job done.

We are a very close-knit unit and we will get the job done.

Brian Sullivan

We started on Monday. They're learning about installing and wrapping sheet metal on a job site.

Lauren Bush

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

William Shakespeare

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

Louis C. K.

I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot that way.

Louis C. K.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Louis C. K.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Kurt Vonnegut

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

Kurt Vonnegut

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

Mark Cuban

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

Mark Cuban

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.

Mark Cuban

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Mark Cuban

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Mark Cuban

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

Mark Cuban

To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.

Mark Cuban

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

Mark Cuban

The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than creating controversy, tension, and excuses about why piracy is making the job so hard that no one could do it but them - and oh by the way, they need a raise to really focus in on the fight - the music industry is going to have a very tough time of it.

Madeleine Albright

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

Charley Pride

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.