George Will Quotes

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

George Will

• Jobs
• Gone
• Royalty

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Green
  • Progression
  • Royalty

• I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Know
  • Like
  • Gone

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Job
  • Inspired
  • Jobs

• It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

  

  John Travolta
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Levels

• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Book

• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Society

• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Job
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Missing
  • News
  • Gone

• I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Different
  • Job

• The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Job
  • Jobs

• What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Voice
  • Gone

• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  

  Dale Bumpers
  • Job
  • Education
  • Environment

• It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Way

• I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Life
  • Great
  • Journey

• Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.

  

  Josh McDaniels
  • Life
  • Football
  • Communicate

• There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Death
  • Waiting

• Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Grass
  • Blades

• If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

  

  George Will
  • Jobs
  • Gone
  • Royalty