“When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.” GivingEyeJobsFiveHugeGiving UpToughNineGood Money Author:Brigitte Nielsen
“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.” FirstsWantedActingGrowing UpFiveGrowingPlayerAmbitionMusicianNineHockeyUsualHockey Player Author:Michael J. Fox
“I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.” YearsFiveMinutesNineChristmasClockShoppingToysValentineFive MinutesValentine's DayClosingDecember Author:Jamie Foxx
“Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.” WayTogetherJobsParentFiveNormalNineFamily LifeNormal Family Author:Georgia May Jagger
“I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazinethat was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an officeI had to pull out.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsBigsHouseCompanyFivePlansOfficeBasesMovedAffairDisasterNineHorribleMagazinesEditorsGoing To WorkSan FranciscoNeedlesBack WhenBig HousesUpstart Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.” JobsFiveOfficeNormalMusicianLifestyleNinePostsPost Office Author:Robin Thicke
“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.” YearsWellsTwoBookWarEnoughThreeReadingFiveTaughtBrotherMomMy MomNineComicChocolateCigaretteComic BookHomeworkNine YearsOlder Brother Author:Chris Abani
“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.” IfsWayTryingMeanTwoHandsHoursLinesFiveFourSeaArmsSixRiversWeightFishesNineBoatLakesFishingPoundsLengthCasting Author:Ted Trueblood
“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!” ThinkingWorldWayBelieveWellsLongSeemsTimeValuesI BelieveHoursDifferencesFiveFeetMinutesStrangeWeightNineInstanceFasterFortyPoundsRomeKillersTwelveInchesSixtySixteenHealerSixty Minutes Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.” HumansEmotionFiveNineThings To DoWeird ThingsHuman Emotions Author:Amanda Donohoe
“During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.” PersonsArtStillsEndsFiveGenerationsForgottenEntertainmentNineEnlightenedDespisedKipling Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.” ThinkingEasyBitsHoursFiveNineEveningDesksPuppetsBreathlessNon Stop Author:Nina Conti
“I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.” WorldYearsEndsLastsGuyFiveMovementCoupleHarderSeriesEightNineRelyThrowingLast YearLocationNinetyEightyWorld SeriesMph Author:Andy Pettitte
“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.” YearsLongOrderGivenHalfFiveFourTenPercentInvestingFavorsNineGamblingOddsCasinos Author:Burton Malkiel
“Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.” PeopleKnowsJobsStuffClassWorryFiveMiddleSecurityNineLike MeMiddle Class Author:Irvine Welsh
“Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.” ChildrenFiveThousandMy FavoriteNine Author:Leslie Mann
“I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.” I CanMovingFiveStandardsNineRhythmOrganizeTempo Author:Assata Shakur
“The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.” IfsWayUseSimpleWhiteFivePiecesGroupsNotesSevenNinePianoRepeatsFormulasSectionsMinimalist Author:Brian Eno
“I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd have to commit to a regular nine-to-five.” ThinkingWritingLooksImportantJobsFiveLike YouNineCommit Author:Christopher Paul Curtis
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.” ActorsSocialMillionsFiveConditionsTvsMessagesPaidDollarsNineLikesMillion Dollars Author:David Brinkley
“Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.” PeopleKnowsYearsMindHeartDifferentSometimesBeautifulThreeOpinionFivePoetSixNineInnocentThree TimesNine YearsAnother TimeBeautiful HeartDifferent OpinionsBeautiful Mind Author:Ai Weiwei
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsImportantWholeWinningStarsTermFiveFourWeekDressesNinePregnant Author:Debra Messing
“Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!” IfsWayGivingMindEnoughUseFiveCrazyCreditNineBarely Getting By Author:Dolly Parton
“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.” ValuesGrowsHoursAttitudeFiveWeekTypeTasteDemandRefuseNineBossLegislationUnemploymentOld FashionedMental AttitudeGradual Change Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!” WellsTwoThreeFiveFourAliveTenSixSevenEightNineWhiningI Am Alive Author:Eugene Sue
“The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.” ThinkingKnowsWantMayHappensGirlBoysRolesFiveTreeCryAdultsEightGenderCleverNineInstanceUncertaintyClimbingGender RolesDescendingPrismsClimbing Trees Author:Gloria Steinem
“To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” StillsLastsMistakeStudyFiveFourEconomicStreetsMovementWallProveNineRecessionsCommentatorsOmenUnderstatementDownturn Author:Paul Samuelson
“You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.” ThinkingYearsHardDoneProblemFightingFoundBlackStruggleFiveDegreesPrisonConvictionRingsNineCompareFive YearsExesNine YearsConvictsParole Author:Bernard Hopkins
“I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.” WayWantRealPlaySchoolActorsActingFiveDramaSeriesScriptsNinePerformingMonologuesSchool Plays Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.” PeopleWorldEnergyGoalPerfectLevelsFiveAchieveEasierPicksPercentLonelyAimRaisesCompetitionConvincedNineBarsGreat ThingsRealisticIncapableMediocreNinetyConsumingNinety NineTime ConsumingRealistic GoalsLonely At The Top Author:Tim Ferriss