| "To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed." »Phyllis Mcginley |
| "Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our 'stink' around. The second is we both get hit by cars a lot. The third is stripes." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged." »Helen Keller |
| "There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone." »Robert Elwood Bly |
| "If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide." »Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
| "I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune." »Jerry Della Femina |
| "The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment." »Warren Bennis |
| "If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary." »Ayn Rand |
| "But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second." »Vince Lombardi |
| "The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether." »Max Percy |
| "If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
| "I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me." »Althea Gibson |
| "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey |
| "Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night." »Casino |
| "If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important." »Barbara Colorose |
| "Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke." »George Foreman |
| "Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up." »Neva Cole |
| "No man ever listened himself out of a job." »Calvin Coolidge |
| "We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job." »William Faulkner |
| "Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done." »Al Bernstein |
| "A position is what you hold; a job is what you do." »Ileana Helwig |
| "Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here." »Harry S Truman |
| "The longer the title, the less important the job." »George Stanley McGovern |
| "I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy." »Danny McGoorty |
| "A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love." »Marysarah Quinn |
| "The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job." »Ronald Reagan |
| "To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man." »Golda Meir |
| "One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring." »Barbara Bush |
| "Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year." »Dan Quayle |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
