Top 100 Quotes About Hired
#1. They just expected it to you know ... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?
Amy Sedaris
#2. David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Terry Southern
#3. I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#4. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret
#5. Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.
Charles Bukowski
#6. Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
John DiMaggio
#8. The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Scott Walker
#9. alter kocker like me. Street-word is Hal hired Coral
Scott Turow
#10. I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
Burn Gorman
#11. I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
Debi Mazar
#12. It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Samantha Bee
#13. When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.
Sarah Silverman
#14. It was ME, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!
Shane McMahon
#15. With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.
Emma Donoghue
#16. As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
Paul McGann
#17. You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.
Jill Konrath
#18. Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.
Muhammad Yunus
#19. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.
J.C. Reed
#20. I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.
Ann Friedman
#21. The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.
Claud Cockburn
#22. Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.
Ryan Lilly
#23. I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola
#24. At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
Martha Plimpton
#25. I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
Thomas F. Wilson
#26. Jack looked at the paper. Devonsgate had listed all twelve footmen: John, Mark, Luke,
Thomas ... Bloody hell, his butler had hired the entire New Testament.
Karen Hawkins
#27. Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
Ian McEwan
#28. Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'
Robert Giroux
#29. The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
Whitey Herzog
#30. To be hired as a girlfriend, sure, this seemed abnormal, but then again so many things seemed abnormal to me that I'd long ago learned not to trust that instinct.
Catherine Lacey
#31. In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.
Tim Howard
#32. It would be sad to be hired as a caregiver and then die before the person you were looking after. You wouldn't be able to let people know you did a good job.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#33. War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#34. In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
John Buchanan Robinson
#35. I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.
Tony Dungy
#36. Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.
Jon Stewart
#37. I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.
Joe Donnelly
#38. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Thomas Huxley
#39. Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.
Conan O'Brien
#40. In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
Audre Lorde
#41. We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.
Andrew Saul
#42. An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that's owned by a so-called dropout.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#43. It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.
Mila Kunis
#44. Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
Toby Young
#46. I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.
Donna Brazile
#47. Thirty-seven of them will be about shy, reclusive pennsylvania dutch lesbian who wants to write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand. In dialect.
J.D. Salinger
#48. I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.
Don Lemon
#49. Poison is a coward's weapon' the king complained. Ned had heard enough. 'You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?
George R R Martin
#50. In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.
Nia Long
#51. I really believe if I'm the best person for the role, I'll be hired. That's always been my experience.
Tom Hulce
#52. As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.
Jason Bateman
#53. If you haven't picked up on this yet, Disney loves training. Disney will sometimes find any excuse to train a bunch of cast members, whether they've been on the payroll for years or have just been hired.
Annie Salisbury
#54. I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.
Fred Ritchin
#55. Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
Carrie Fisher
#56. Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it's now your job to train and invest in yourself.
Reid Hoffman
#57. Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.
Richard Rodriguez
#58. Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
Lynda Resnick
#59. I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).
Fatima Bint Muhammad
#60. When I first came to work her i spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Befor I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#62. Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.
Argus Hamilton
#63. Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
Diane Kruger
#64. I know there are no guarantees in love, in marriage, in life, in anything. But I want you anyway. I want you all the way. I want you exactly as you are.
Noelle Adams
#65. I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.
Sid Gillman
#66. Max didn't take his hands off her. As they walked to where he'd parked the hired car, he kept his arm round her shoulders, even though he was carrying her cases in his other hand and they kept bumping him.
Sarra Manning
#67. Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Samuel Johnson
#68. First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'
Rochelle Aytes
#69. My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.
Kim Basinger
#70. Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
Daniel Berrigan
#71. I hired you for your attitude, and so far I'm pretty happy with my decision. But I'm not sure I can work with you until I've fucked this attraction out of my system.
J.C. Reed
#72. I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
Kevin Mitnick
#73. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.
Jessica Hische
#74. I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.
Orson Scott Card
#75. Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act.
Howie Mandel
#76. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so
John Grisham
#77. I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
Kat Graham
#78. Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
D. B. Sweeney
#79. A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.
Julie Otsuka
#80. It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.
Bradley Cooper
#81. Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.
Michel Templet
#82. The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.
Paul LePage
#83. I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.
Jason Bateman
#84. A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
Edward Abbey
#85. Do you believe that Deborah Wasserman Schultz, she looks just as happy as Bernie [Sanders] did. She's now hired by [Hillary] Clinton.
Donald Trump
#86. When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'
Tommy Lasorda
#87. I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.
Danny Trejo
#88. Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
Rip Taylor
#89. Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
Aziz Ansari
#90. I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
David Wain
#91. That girl
all of them
hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.
Rainbow Rowell
#92. I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.
Steven Wright
#93. So after that I had a new rule. If I'm hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I'm in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that's a rule I still follow today.
Robert Greene
#94. I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
Tom Petty
#95. My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle....
Charles Kennedy
#96. I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
Rick Danko
#97. So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.
Louie Gohmert
#98. I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
Dan DeCarlo
#99. You hired a female guitarist?"
"Uh, yeah. She fuckin' rocked our faces off.
Olivia Cunning
#100. So what's the verdict?" Kayla asked. "Can I act, or am I just a bimbo who got hired because I look good
in lingerie?"
"Is that a trick question?" Sean grinned. "Because I'm pretty sure you look good in lingerie.
Alison Packard
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