"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."

Job,

21

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."

Exlpore more Job quotes

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Man, Woman

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Woody Allen, American Director

Job,

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Job,

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Job,

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Job,

"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."

Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

Job,

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Lonely, Man, Public

"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."

William Glasser, American Psychologist

Job, May, Teaching

"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."

Dick Murphy, American Politician

Job, Running, Years

"We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'"

Sinbad, American Comedian

Job, Talking

Explore more quotes by Chuck Jones

"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings."

Character

"The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy."

Cartoon characters

"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

Chance

"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."

Creativity

"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."

Art

"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."

Animation

"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."

Character design

"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."

Birds

"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."

Creativity

"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."

Work