Famous Quotes & Sayings

John le Carre

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Jodie Foster

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

Jim Parsons

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Pat Buchanan

They are doing jobs most Americans won't do.

Chad Harbach

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

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.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Earl Weaver

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Bob Schieffer

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

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?

The prospects of a strong jobs report at the end of the week will offer some relief to US assets.

Aaron Levie

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Adriana Lima

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

Adriana Trigiani

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Adam Beach

Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."

Robert Kiyosaki

The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble - if you still have a job. And you know what? I've been saying it for years.

Daniel Tosh

I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.

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.

Dave McKean

I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.

David Boreanaz

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

David Beckham

You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.

David Ogilvy

We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.

Colin Greenwood

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

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.

Dany Heatley

You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.

Dan Rather

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Colson Whitehead

In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect on the economics of the game. But whether people are buying them on paper or downloading them there's still some poor wretch in a room who is trying to write a poem, write a story, write a novel. And so my job doesn't change. It's just how people receive it and economic conditions on the ground change, but that doesn't affect what I write.

Conan O'Brien

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

Conan O'Brien

California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up.

Dwyane Wade

I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.

Dwyane Wade

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

Dwyane Wade

I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.

Dwight L. Moody

You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile.