Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Russell Crowe

Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.

Reza Aslan

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

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.

Reid Hoffman

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

William Zinsser

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

William Zinsser

You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Rebecca West

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Russell Lynes

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Russell Banks

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Russell Banks

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Roger Babson

The God we worship writes his name upon our faces.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

Tucker Max

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Virginia Graham

I have the perfect face for radio.

Walt Whitman

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Sarah Dessen

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Sarah Dessen

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Sarah Dessen

It took a lot of work to be perfect.