Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job and your replacement wasn't as competent, they sued you for lost profits. - Max Barry Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic. - Chuck Palahniuk You've both quit your jobs for me," Laura said, though a little of the sass had left her voice. "I never liked it much anyway," Cam said flippantly. "I was only there for the nookie, and when you walked away, that dried up. - Sophie Oak

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris. - Ed Bradley So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. - Alton Brown I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. - Don Delillo When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. - Billy Joel Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer. - Herb Ritts I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that...

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back. - Patrick Ewing When it comes to.NET they've done a really outstanding job. - Miguel De Icaza

...while I was vowing to save Nick, he had taken on the job of being my protector and staunchest defender - Katherine Allred There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. - Joseph Barbera I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. I suppose I'll have to do even more violent things, exposing myself so I won't fall down on the job and turn scared again - Ray Bradbury As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families. - Allen Boyd The next p...

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything. - Clay Aiken I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago. - Gennifer Flowers I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me. - Rosie Huntingtonwhiteley Not only am I thinking about getting a nose job, but I'm also trying to get employment for the rest of my face. - Jarod Kintz Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't. - Ashlee Simpson

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food. - Danny Bonaduce No job security," Denth said, leaning back in his chair. "The kinds of things we do, they tend to be dangerous and unpredictable. Our employers have a habit of dying off on us." "Though usually not from the chills," Tonk Fah noted. "Swords tend to be the method of choice. - Brandon Sanderson There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. - Carly Fiorina There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well. - Bill Cosby For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, someti...

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer. - Paula Abdul If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done! - J R R Tolkien My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? - Amy Adams Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. - Christina Aguilera My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as. - Kate Adie I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job. - Roger Ailes I thought it was my job to give all t...

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? - Jodi Picoult I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it. - Sergio Aragones My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's. - Shelley Berman People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. - Helena Bonham Carter It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs. - James Coburn My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company...

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there. - Carol Burnett The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time... Life is about experiencing opposites isn't it? - Laurel House

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. - Phyllis Diller have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom. - Henry Miller I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed. - Joe Lando But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job. - Rick Perry

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job. - Lois Mcmaster Bujold Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all. - Hunter S Thompson I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done. - Anderson Cooper Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: BewareDo Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along. - Jerry Spinelli

Ohmigod! This place is so cool!" This was Tracy, who was sashaying into the warehouse looking around like she just hit the candy garden with chocolate stream at Willy Wonka's. Her eyes caught site of Elvira who was in the kitchen. "Hey girl! What's up?" "Job satisfaction, beanpole, what's up with you," Elvira replied on a huge smile thus taking the sting out of her nickname for Tracy (I hoped). If Cam was yin to Tracy's yang, Elvira was yang to all of our yins. - Kristen Ashley There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. - Albert Bandura I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here. - Jonathan Brown Having said th...

Everyone's fake in certain situations. It's like when you go for a job interview and they ask you, "What would you do if you found one of your friends at work stealing?" and, let's face it, no one's going to tell on their friend. But of course you have to say, "I would tell IMMEDIATELY, because I don't think I could work in that kind of environment, it's not good for my morale." No one wants to look like an idiot. - Lauren Barnholdt In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business. - Lemony Snicket When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black C...

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. - Kareem Abduljabbar Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him. - Patricia Briggs Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. - Al Bernstein I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done. - Peabo Bryson I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself. - James Cameron The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. - George Car...

Did you miss my job description? Or were you just not paying attention the day I busted heads on Olympus? Fucking with you people is what I do. It's what I live for and I'm really tired of you now. (ZT) - Sherrilyn Kenyon What are you? (a Daimon) Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk - Chetan Bhagat Terminus sniffed. I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description. - Rick Riordan Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description. - Gail Carriger The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. - Hillary Clinton I just never did buy this idea that you have to live...

I figured the Nightingale Investigations job application form had the question Are you hot? Yes. No. If you answered no, please exit the building. - Kristen Ashley On any job application I ever do, if they want my references, I always list the Bible. - Jarod Kintz In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. - Jonathan Kozol Dude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does job applications anymore?" "I do." I squint at it, then him. "What are you paying me?" I angle. "Dude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does money anymore." I snicker. First sign of any sense of humor he's shown. Then I remember where I am and why. I wad it up and throw it at him. It bounces off his chest. - Karen Marie Moning

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one! - T F Hodge Freedom is an inside job. - Sam Keen Being enough was going to have to be an inside job. - Anne Lamott Happiness is an inside job. - William Arthur Ward

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. - Alton Brown I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. - Don Delillo Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer. - Herb Ritts Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family. - Mink Stole I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. - Theodore Sturgeon

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job? - Dick Cheney When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since. - Dan Decarlo

As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one could tell you what to eat, or what to wear, or how to behave. It meant that it was okay to have sex with guys. What a joke! - Judy Blume The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked. - Cuba Gooding Jr Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life. - Darren L Johnson I'm not talking about commitment to romantic relationships. I'm talking about commitment to things: houses, jobs, neighborhoods. Having a job that requires a contract. Paying a mortgage. I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life...