Dead End Job Quotes

#1. Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it' ... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.

Dennis Miller

#2. Maybe its not necessarily a dead-end job; maybe more along the lines of a rear-end one.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#3. My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.

Rick Smolan

#4. A smile can hide so much. A smile can be a lie.

Megan Shepherd

#5. Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

Rick Moody

#6. For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Marcel Proust

#7. When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

Alberto Giacometti

#8. There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star.

John Steinbeck

#9. You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face

Ian Fleming

#10. In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.

Regina Brett

#11. I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

Michelle Hodkin

#12. This new guy had shoulder-length, darkish hair and a face so perfectly handsome he could've been a movie star.

Joanna Wylde

#13. When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

Namkhai Norbu

#15. Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter;

Scott Jonathan Nixon

#16. Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

Joyce Meyer

#17. The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

Jose Andres

#18. I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

Junior Seau