Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Bruno

I see danger—awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God has given me. This is the job I must do, so my hands will be free of your blood.

George Clooney

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

Lisa Whelchel

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Louise Penny

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Malcolm Forbes

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.

Fred Upton

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

John C. Reilly

The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

Cindy Adams

The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top.

James Toney

He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

James Nachtwey

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

James McBride

You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African American writer, or if you deal with people, or if your subjects are poor people or people who need voice. So you don't really need to know whether or not you are doing the right thing. What you have to be wary of if you're doing the right thing to the right level that will surpass your own life. I'm hoping that my work will surpass my own life.

Elaine Stritch

I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

Henry Rollins

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

Harlan Ellison

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

Graydon Carter

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

John Maynard Keynes

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

Dick Enberg

Do kids ever tire of Christmas? The excitement of this job is never dull because in all the years and thousands of games I've called I've never done the same one twice.

Dick Cheney

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

David Cameron

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Colin Hanks

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

Dwight L. Moody

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

Courtney Love

I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.

Courtney Love

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

Courtney Love

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

Colin Quinn

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

Colin Quinn

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

Colin Powell

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

Colin Powell

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

Colin Powell

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

Chris Jones

We run the gamut. We've had jobs from $6,000 to $200,000.

Karen Allen

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.