Occupation Quotes · Page 12

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

— Anthony Trollope

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

— Khaled Mashal

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

— George Lucas

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

— Horace Mann

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

— Kid Rock

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

— Vita Sackville-West

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat…

— Muqtada al Sadr

I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a…

— Jurgen Teller

The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While…

— Viktor Korchnoi

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his…

— Jane Addams

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

— Lu Yen-hsun

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

— Bernard DeVoto

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession,…

— Duke Ellington

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs,…

— Anonymous

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them…

— Victor Hugo

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went…

— Michael Franti

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature…

— Barbara Bergmann

Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in…

— Peter Padfield

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the…

— Jane Austen

There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men,…

— Warren Farrell

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great…

— Donald E. Westlake

The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and…

— Noam Chomsky

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

— Philip Sidney

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

— Queen Christina

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

— Alexander Borodin

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

— Mark Twain

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

— Tom Rath

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

— Ray Bradbury

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you…

— Orison Swett Marden

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by…

— Mahmoud al-Zahar

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military…

— John Pilger

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I…

— Caroline Kennedy

I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I…

— David Copperfield