Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamora Pierce

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

Tammy Duckworth

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

Tamara Mellon

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

Tabitha Soren

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

T Bone Burnett

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

Sylvia Plath

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Sylvia Plath

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.

Sylvia Plath

I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

Roy Spencer

I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.

Roy Spence

The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth.

Roy Moore

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

Roy Keane

I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'

Rosamund Pike

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Ronald D. Moore

As frustrating as it gets, at times, and as frustrating as it is, at times, I don't think I've ever considered doing something else, or not wanted to do it anymore. To me, it's just the greatest job. It's a good fit for who I am and what I want to be.

Ron Wyden

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

Ron Wyden

I think I've got the best job around.

Ron Dennis

I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

Ron Howard

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Ron Fournier

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

Ron Fournier

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Stephen King

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

Stephen King

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

Stephen King

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

Stephen King

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

Stephen King

Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

Stephen King

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

Stephen King

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?

Stephen King

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.

Stephen King

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Stephen King

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Stephen King

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

Stephen King

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.