Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. — Gregory Mcdonald Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers. — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics. — Victor Mature Copy Share Image
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
