Profession Quotes · Page 16

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

— Lykke Li

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

— Bella Abzug

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

— Bela Lugosi

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

— Drew Goddard

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

— David Talbot

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

— Frederick The Great

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

— Henry David Thoreau

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

— Queen Elizabeth II

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose…

— Samuel Butler

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need…

— George Bernard Shaw

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live…

— Moss Hart

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general…

— Rebecca West

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

— Ted Gup

As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know,…

— Nicholas Sparks

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the…

— Melanie Griffith

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of…

— Learned Hand

To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that…

— Blaise Pascal

When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're…

— Josh Garrels

All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that…

— W. H. Auden

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and…

— Erica Jong

The single most important thing in my life is God. The second most important thing in my life is my family and…

— Sam Rutigliano

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Growing up, my parents were my heroes in the way they conducted their lives. My dad works in child protection. As kids,…

— Chris Hemsworth

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would…

— Simon Greenleaf

I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard…

— Ethan Hawke

As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to…

— Catherine Mayer

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute…

— E.C. Riegel

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or…

— Adrienne Rich

If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in…

— Paul Washer

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these…

— James Truslow Adams

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

— Jacques Barzun

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

— Anonymous

It feels very nice to have a sister around in the same profession.

— Shamita Shetty

Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.

— Umar

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

— Suzanne Farrell

As I emerged into my profession, I realized I had a really unique skill set.

— Bear McCreary

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney