Profession Quotes · Page 21

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

— Lane Kiffin

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

— Anonymous

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

— Wynn Bullock

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain…

— Shane Black

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

— Natasha Leggero

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

— Samuel Richardson

He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat

— Jeaniene Frost

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby…

— Nelson DeMille

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both…

— Eduardo Chillida

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

— Edmund White

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

— Thomas More

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary…

— Anthony Burgess

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…

— Charles Babbage

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest…

— Anonymous

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest…

— Diana Rigg

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic…

— Erma Bombeck

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in…

— Joseph Howe

Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all…

— David Livingstone

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he…

— Ambrose Bierce

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor.…

— Helen Mirren

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well…

— Francesco Guicciardini

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting…

— Titian

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted…

— Eve Hewson

It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator…

— John Adams

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

— Martin Short

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

— Karl Germain

“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.”

— Amit Kalantri

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

— Phil Plait

Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.

— Deepika Padukone

In any profession, you can't reach the top without loving what you do.

— Vlade Divac

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

— Jack Black

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

— Ronald Reagan

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

— Georges Bizet

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

— Luke Timothy Johnson

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

— Ann Patchett

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

— Rooney Mara