Profession Quotes · Page 24

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession.

— Vera Farmiga

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

— John Updike

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

— Herbert Hoover

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

— Maya Hawke

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

— John Wooden

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

— Brendan Behan

“His profession is accounting, but his business is real estate.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal…

— George Dzundza

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the…

— Lesley Visser

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows…

— Douglas Adams

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are…

— Wolfgang Puck

We are targeted when humor is not taken in the right spirit, but that's a part and parcel of this profession.

— Kiku Sharda

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and…

— Viola Davis

I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,…

— Davis Schneiderman

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention…

— Jack LaLanne

To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just…

— Antonio Banderas

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it…

— Michelle Grabner

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They…

— George Bernard Shaw

My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for…

— Ian Anthony Dale

I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but…

— Bonnie Bassler

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

— Charles Dance

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

— Derek Bok

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

— Cy Coleman

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

— Earl Monroe

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

— Adam Davidson

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

— Maxine Powell

“World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.”

— Amit Kalantri

I knew when I was 10 years old that boxing would be my profession.

— Shane Mosley

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

— Julia Barr

The good thing is I picked a profession that I'm passionate about.

— Ainsley Earhardt

The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.

— Mike Love

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

— Anonymous

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

— Twyla Tharp

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

— Ambrose Bierce

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

— Richard Wagner

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

— Dabney Coleman