Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

Kurt Vonnegut

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

Kurt Vonnegut

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Ron Wilson

There comes a point where we have to have some people step up and play as well as they can and make sure that their teammates aren't trying to do too much. And you have to respect people around you. That's a lack of trust if you don't think other people can do the job that you try to do too much.

There has been job growth. But it's not where we would like to see it.

Chris Jones

We run the gamut. We've had jobs from $6,000 to $200,000.

We said we would be thorough. There is only one way to do this job and that's to do it right.

We knew jobs were front-end loaded because of the weather. Even so, this is dramatic.

David Jackson

We knew it would be tough. We wanted to do a better job on the boards. They're very strong on the boards.

We need to do a little better job of possessing the ball, and up top, we've to find a way to score the ball.

Alan Lewis

We need to do a better job of treating our residents.

Joseph Allen

We need to do a better job, a year-round job of recruitment.

John Walters

We need to do a better job at going after the large structures that provide marketing.

We think we can do a better job than we're doing.

Madeleine Albright

I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

Madeleine Albright

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

Madeleine Albright

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Madeleine Albright

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Madeleine Albright

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Ben Bernanke

Until the job market improves, this recovery will not feel like a recovery to most Americans,

Alexa Von Tobel

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

Matt Mullenweg

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

Matt Lanter

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

It's a very tough job to host a show and a very tough job to produce a show, and you're in a no-win position.

Leelee Sobieski

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

People are seeing we're not getting job growth, even though there have been a lot of promises of it. That's the key; for people to be satisfied, you have to have job growth.

People are reluctant to come to a university where the top job is unsettled.

People are now looking for jobs because it is now worth looking.

Chad Smith

Our kids played exceptionally well today. They are doing a much better job of managing the course.

Our job is to work with the states - to be partners to the states.