Job Quotes

• 'Why are you quitting?''Sick of my job.''Because what you were doing was morally bad?' suggested the voice.'Because it wasn’t getting anybody anywhere. Because it was getting everybody nowhere.''Because it was evil?' insisted the voice.'Because it was pointless.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Evil

• We're a pretty strong bunch, and we have pretty lofty goals. For us, the manager is very important in a lot of ways, but also, we have a job to do, and that's to go out and win.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Angel

• I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • People
  • Job
  • Science

• I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

  

  Lloyd Cutler
  • Up
  • Job
  • Intelligent

• Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• The other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts, and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Job
  • Experience

• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Long
  • Job
  • Movie

• I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • Job
  • Hood
  • Cocky

• The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • People
  • Job
  • Political

• From the time I was 16, I wanted to live in Paris. When I graduated college and didn't have a job, I went to take the LSAT because I didn't know what else to do. I walked out in the middle of the test and eventually found an internship in Paris at L'Oreal.

  

  Maureen Chiquet
  • Time
  • Live
  • College

• It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fear

• My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Job
  • Experience

• We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • School
  • inspirational
  • Motivated

• If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Job
  • Party
  • Planner

• It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Job

• Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

  

  Preneet Kaur
  • Women
  • Job

• It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Job
  • Attention

• I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Love
  • She

• The world has changed utterly. There was a time when you couldn't marry a Protestant. There was a time when you got married that the women had to give up their job in the public service, and when they got married, they were owned by their husbands. That's all changed.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • World
  • Job
  • Guy

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