Profession Quotes · Page 25

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

— Lea Thompson

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

— P. T. Barnum

My father, Haridutt Bhatt, was a teacher by profession.

— Himani Shivpuri

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

— Francis Bacon

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

— Naomie Harris

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

— George Orwell

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

— Samuel Johnson

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those…

— Charles Fourier

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

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

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

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

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

— Lauren Bacall

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has…

— Stanislaw Lem

I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind…

— Sarah Shahi

A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently…

— Thomas Addison

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm…

— Shirley Eaton

I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for…

— Lesley Gore

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I…

— Suzanne Farrell

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which…

— Rebecca De Mornay

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

— Marissa Mayer

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

— Umberto Eco

I have friends in the industry, but I have to realise that this is a profession.

— Zayed Khan

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

— John H. Johnson

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

— Lawrence Bender

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)”

— Agatha Christie

Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

— Pam Ferris

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

— Joe Mantegna

Acting is my profession while politics is my obsession.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.

— Odile Decq

My profession has never demanded that I be mobbed by fans.

— Henry Mancini

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

— Shuler Hensley