Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Susan Sontag

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

Taylor Kinney

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

Taylor Kinney

I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked (stole) a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

Taylor Hackford

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Ruben Studdard

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Rose Schneiderman

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

Rose McIver

It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life.

Rose Byrne

I think its important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

Rose McGowan

With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . . Look, it's very weird to have part and parcel of a job to feel like you're a lure for men to come into the theater. Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

Rose McGowan

A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly.

Rose McGowan

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

Ronnie Barker

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

Ronda Rousey

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

Ronda Rousey

Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.

Ron Ben-Israel

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

Romola Garai

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

Romola Garai

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Tyler Florence

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

Tyler Oakley

Best thing about doing Youtube as a job - the Youtube friends that I've met all around the world, that I never would have got the chance to meet without Youtube.

Tyler Perry

I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.

Trisha Goddard

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

Triple H

It has nothing to do with [Renee] being a female or not, it has to do with her being the right person for the job. She’s got a great voice that cuts through the clutter. She is very knowledgeable about WWE, about its history, about the talent and she is really willing to step up and do her homework. I think you’re going to see her grow. You’re going to see her jump on this challenge to become a regular fixture and a regular voice and, hopefully, maybe one day the voice of WWE.

Travis Kalanick

There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.

Travis Barker

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

Rick Riordan

She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.

Richard Dean Anderson

Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

Richard Dawson

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Rhianna Pratchett

In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.

Reza Aslan

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

Raymond Chandler

There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

Raymond Chandler

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.

Reince Priebus

Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.