Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Chris Robinson

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Nathaniel Branden

Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Carrie Snodgress

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

Bette Davis

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Bernadette Peters

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

Bill Burr

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

That would be great. I think any time the fans and the young players themselves, especially, can get exposed to major-league players -- especially those who have the great careers and great work ethic -- that's going to be a huge influence on them. I would think that would be great exposure for everybody involved.

That was probably the most disappointing game I've ever been a part of in my career here. Words don't really describe it. I'm still very hurt by it. But you've got to move on and put those things in the past. Everyone's intensity has to be picked up a little bit. And I think we need to hit the defensive glass on rebounds.

Randy Houser

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

Raymond Burr

I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.'

Rick Wakeman

Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician.

We have the opposite problem at Ford Motor Company. Right now, we have approximately 700 technician graduates who have been trained through our technical career entry programs and are now looking for employment.

Michael Myers

We have talked a lot about getting a new beginning, ... We don't ever want to be apart. We want to end our careers here.

Aidan Turner

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

You are fighting for your career up there. You are fighting for your name.

We have careers advisers who say to youngsters 'you need to go to university'. That is arrant nonsense.

With The Unicorns, we really got thrust into a career out of nowhere. We started touring and it was really tough for the first several months. All of a sudden, one good Pitchfork review, and we were selling out shows left, right and center. It was a real whirlwind, and I think Alden just wanted to back off somewhat.

Rashard Lewis

I would love to finish my career in Houston, to be back in front of the hometown fans and in front of my family. You never know what can happen. I'm happy in Seattle right now. But at the same time, there's no place like home.

Michael Caine

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.

Tim Curry

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

Shirley Knight

My career has been odd in the sense that I did a lot of films early in my career and then for years I only worked in the theater in New York.

My career ended when I was 9 years old. It's been a long time. Like everything else in The Villages, there's something you always wanted to do, and here you get the chance.

Steve Mariucci

My career can wait, and I want to enjoy more time at home.

Mary Roach

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

Most of my career has been spent in countries where children are not well off.

Gareth Edwards

Who knows? Injury plays a big part in most people's careers but only time will tell if he can return to the way we all remember him,

Jim Calhoun

When that game ended, I knew I had tied Don Haskins in career wins. That was a special moment for me that I didn't share with people, but it was nice to know I tied him.

Jeff Smith

You can go your whole career without going into a new station.