Top 1200 Odd Jobs Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new jobs created by our economy. Something is fundamentally wrong when we have millions of American citizens and legal residents begging for jobs, and yet we are admitting thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with virtually no consideration to our employment needs or their employment skills.

For the type of parts I play, I should be booed. But it's odd, fans just adore me. I can't explain it.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.

Actually, being a hero is not easy. You have to dance around trees, not to mention all the odd and unnatural things you have to do.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me.

I think people in general don't take enough risks. Some people feel that before they can take on that next challenge they need to be 100 percent ready. It's just not true. Even people in their jobs aren't perfect at their jobs. So my biggest advice to people is to step out there. Take the risk and deal with it. What is the worst that could happen? It's about thriving on risk instead of shrinking from risk.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

It's quite confusing and odd when a footballer, instead of playing, is interested in bringing in players who are his friends.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

Donald Trump claims - he did interview after the debate where he said, well, gosh, you can't find Americans to do these jobs to be waiters or waitresses or bellhops.What ridiculous nonsense. "The New York Times" reported roughly 300 Americans applied for those jobs. He only hired 17. Instead, he brought in foreign workers, because they're captive workers, because you can pay them less because they can't leave.

I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're not setting the table for really robust economic development, here in Pennsylvania, where we can do that. I lament the fact that our schools are being hollowed out. We need a fresh start. I think we need to go in a different direction. I think we need a new governor.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

We've made a huge effort globally and in the US, in getting kids jobs. This is one piece. The South Bronx and inner-city schools need it more than most. It's our hometown; JPMorgan Chase banks a lot of people here. If you see the school, it works. Kids all getting jobs, they're smiling, they're proud of themselves. That's what we need to do in inner-city schools.

This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on it because it would take so long. I never believed I could do two things at once. The jobs I had were minimum wage jobs that you wouldn't want to pursue for too long, or that couldn't really take over your life.

As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.

I'm very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, that I like the thrill of discomfort.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

I'll also make sure that America has trade relations with China that work for us. I've watched year in and year out as companies have shut down and people have lost their jobs because China has not played by the same rules, in part by holding down artificially the value of their currency. It holds down the prices of their goods. It means our goods aren't as competitive and we lose jobs. That's got to end.

It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

Of course I catch up on the odd Malayalam and Tamil movie on streaming platforms once a while.

It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.

I spend eight to nine months working abroad and cram in a holiday when I have the odd week off.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

The usual practice is that the people in their jobs keep their jobs until their successors are named. Now, that`s the way the [George] Bush administration treated the [Bill] Clinton people. And that`s the way the [Barack] Obama administration treated the [George W.] Bush people.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.