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Job Quotes



"Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado."


"Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively."
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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."


"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."


"When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story."
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"Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job."



"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."


"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."


"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."


"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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"If kids come to educators and teachers 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."


"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."


"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives."



"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."


"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."


"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants."


"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job."



"When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job."


"Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper."


"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."


"And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!"


"Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew."



"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."
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