Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Eric Schmidt

When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

Emily Giffin

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

Damon Allen

Those are all the hidden stigmas they put on people early in their careers -- that you're a running quarterback,

Howard Taylor

These peoples' careers have been ruined because someone has some sour grapes.

David Bolland

Not many guys get 50 goals and 100 points in a season during their OHL careers so it's a big thing. I'm keeping the puck. I'm glad to get it done. It would've been nice if one of us got our 50th at home but a goal's a goal. That's the way you have to look at it.

Mark Teixeira

Any time you get named in a list like that, it's very humbling, ... To see the careers those guys have had and the career that Pujols is going to have ... it's nice to be part of that group.

Keith Wilbur

It's been a great class. Their freshmen year was the first year I got hired at Santa Clara and the program has improved every year they've been here. Hopefully they will finish their careers on a high note at the Western Water Polo Association Championships.

Bob Krabbe

It's particularly devastating to the last 310 flight attendants laid off in 2001 after September 11, who were just called back to work Aug. 1. Now these people are being told they will be back on the street again. Northwest gave no thought to the fact that many of these folks left other jobs and careers to come back. Now they will have to look for work again.

James Mercer

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Ashley Jensen

My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.

Adam Putnam

I'm still frustrated with the fact that there are so many unresolved issues a year later, ... They have been slow to respond to some of the valid criticisms.

Hank Cox

Manufacturing has already been in an a recession ... but we were looking for a fourth-quarter turnaround. With the interest rate cuts, tax cuts, and (the fact that) many manufacturers had gone through their inventory set us up for a reasonable recovery.

Rathika Martyn

I'm humbled by the fact that I've been given an opportunity to do this. It was something we felt we needed to do.

Alan Faneca

I think this team has rallied around him and what he's meant to this organization for so long and knowing that this could be his last ride. The fact that it's in his hometown means a lot to the guys in here to make it happen for him because he's meant that much to us.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Alecko Eskandarian

I needed this. Peter gave me the start, he's been very supportive, and I just wanted to repay him.

Maurice Ager

I never gave up on myself and I understood there's plenty of time left in the season.

Larry Graham

I'm thankful God gave us the rain and I'm happy to be in it.

Jim Day

Iowa gave us an offer that we couldn't refuse.

Mike Kudla

I had 46 right there. I just couldn't get that last inch on my right arm. It just kind of gave way. But I was very happy with that performance.

Will Christian

I really think they are solid all the way around. They are very, very solid. They are very well coached, and they are doing what they gave been doing what they have been doing for years.

Genevieve Gorder

Including the kids that use the space through the physical transformation gave the young people ownership in the space that they use. We took a day and joined together, and that is a great lesson.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Dale Dauten

Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

Dale Archer

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don’t do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job, that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify,

Dale Archer

Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!

Crispin Glover

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

Creed Bratton

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.

Criss Angel

I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club... the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Jennifer Henderson

Last year I had the big three, but this year I have the big 20.

Lindsey Kildow

Last year I had a lot of top-three results, but we didn't really get any prizes, just money, so this is really awesome. She's a little ornery, but she's cool.

Kianna Smith

Last year I got a lot of recognition (for my scoring). I like to pass. I like my assists more than my points.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Joe Torre

Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Walter Kirn

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Win Butler

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Tony Beardsley

We're not sure if he's 100 percent because we haven't thrown him out there. He's doing better. I look for him to come back where he left off.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stan Lee

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

Stephen Vizinczey

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Roy Orbison

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

Rosanne Cash

Work ... is redemption.

Tom Peters

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

Tom Peters

Hire disrespectful people.

Steve Wozniak

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.