Top 100 Full Time Quotes
#2. He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
Helen Simonson
#4. When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
Don Meyer
#5. I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
Dani Shapiro
#6. To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.
Mike Wilson
#7. Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.
Marco Arment
#8. Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.
Jade Hassoune
#9. Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
Karen DeCrow
#10. Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly became less wild. To Manny's great disappointment, though, her domestic skills didn't rise to the fore as her sexual and artistic ones receded.
Meg Wolitzer
#11. A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
Erica Jong
#12. Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.
Emma Stone
#13. I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.
Garth Greenwell
#14. There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
Tori Spelling
#15. I'm looking for a full-time portable heat generator. Must be willing to travel. If you don't snuggle, you must cuddle - at a world champion level.
Jarod Kintz
#16. I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
Natalie Portman
#17. We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.
Ann Macbeth
#18. I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
Alec Baldwin
#19. It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.
Allison Tolman
#20. I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.
Mick Jagger
#21. Emma's gaze went from Alec to Jace, curious. "Do you worry about him?" she asked Alec, surprising a laugh out of him.
"All the time," he said. "Jace could get himself killed putting his pants on in the morning. Being his parabatai is a full-time job.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new business ... These efficiencies have really given us the ability to take advantage of new opportunities and expand our business.
Don Richardson
#23. It's more like how some people can't help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you meet someone and instantly know they're a full-time professional victim, and no matter how hard you try, something takes over and you can't help needling them.
Richard Kadrey
#24. It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.
Lisa Firestone
#25. We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.
Eric Schneiderman
#26. I'll always be a Georgia girl at heart, but I live in Los Angeles full time. My parents still live in Georgia, so I go home as often as I can.
Melissa Ordway
#27. Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
Edouard Boubat
#28. 'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'
Katrina Law
#29. I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright
#30. I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
Keith Moon
#31. Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
Nathan Fillion
#32. I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.
Paul Smith
#34. I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
Sloane Crosley
#35. Our kids need us to be the dad, not a fun single uncle. When you can replace your 007 poster with a framed portrait of Grandma, your kids will experience an underlying sense of being at home when they are with you - whether for a weekend, a summer, or full-time.
Tez Brooks
#36. I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.
William J. Clinton
#37. She was forty-one years old, and she was tired. But the fatigue would pass. The old dreams of full-time motherhood and a cushy retirement were forever forgotten.
John Grisham
#38. I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."
"Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#39. I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.
Trinny Woodall
#40. Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.
Tim Holmes
#41. Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time.
Vikrmn
#42. Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
Alex Pareene
#43. I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.
Peter Max
#45. Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.
Tony Hsieh
#46. I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.
Lindsay Davenport
#47. You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be.
Carol Friedman
#48. I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to each movie scene, but my goal is to compose music that works perfectly for the director, and me!
John Keltonic
#49. Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
Sloane Crosley
#50. I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.
Michael Richard Stosic
#51. I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.
Tom Lehrer
#52. I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.
Elisa Albert
#53. Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.
Gary Rohrmayer
#54. I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.
Daryn Kagan
#55. Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
Ashwin Sanghi
#56. Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
Jack Canfield
#57. In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.
R.K. Narayan
#58. I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
Mary Roach
#59. It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.
Sara Blakely
#60. The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.
Elizabeth Warren
#61. My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
Carla Bruni
#62. Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.
Mindy Kaling
#63. As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.
Lauren Weisberger
#64. I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.
Doug Stanhope
#65. I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.
Jeremy Camp
#67. Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job.
Jana Oliver
#68. I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
Tina Fey
#69. If you find yourself about to complain, think of your many blessings and rejoice! Don't give the devil a ride today, because then he'll want to drive full-time. So, kick his attitude of complaining spirit out of your blessed zone. Don't give the devil NOTHING!!
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#70. Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.
Wole Soyinka
#71. Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.
Judah Friedlander
#72. Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.
Sheila Kamerman
#73. Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
Naomi Wolf
#74. Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.
Liz W. Garcia
#75. I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#76. I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
Peter Straub
#77. A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.
Charles Bukowski
#78. I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
T.I.
#79. Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!
Mark Lowry
#80. We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
Carl Karcher
#81. All human beings go through a period where they are assholes, except for the fake ones who are assholes full-time.
Nicola Keegan
#82. It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.
Charles B. Rangel
#83. I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.
Diane Mott Davidson
#84. Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
E.B. White
#85. I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Frank Shorter
#86. My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.
Tyler Florence
#87. If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.
Simon Toyne
#88. But just because we can't fix Obamacare doesn't mean we can't start to get rid of its worst features. On Thursday, the House will take up a bill to define 'full time' as 40 hours per week, so more people can work full time.
Paul Ryan
#89. Being raised as an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons, I became an Eagle scout, and after graduating high school, I went on a full-time church mission to the West Indies for 2 years.
Shay Carl
#90. Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"
Cassandra Clare
#91. Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.
Carrie Jones
#92. Watching TV becomes a full-time job when you can scan 200 channels all day and all night and still have the option of punching Night Dreams into the video machine, if the rest of the world seems dull.
Hunter S. Thompson
#93. I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long.
Ron Jaworski
#94. It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
Harriet Harman
#95. Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
Ani DiFranco
#96. Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.
Orrin Woodward
#97. Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?
Kimberly Guilfoyle
#98. My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#99. The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.
Shan Sa
#100. I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50. We face a lot of hard judgment from the world, we women. If you're a full-time mother, you should be out working. If you're out working, your kids must be being overlooked.
Anna Quindlen
