When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a… — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions,… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and… — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do,… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If… — Nas Copy Share Image
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could… — Lawrence Korb Copy Share Image
Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal… — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image