Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Busy Philipps

I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.

Carol Bartz

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Jane Hirshfield

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Daniel Gilbert

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Bobby Sherman

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Confucius

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Anne Lamott

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Ann Voskamp

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.