I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds… — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what… — Katia Winter Copy Share Image
Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them… — David Haye Copy Share Image
I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe;… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about… — Chili Davis Copy Share Image
La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across… — Kevin Spacey 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
Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to… — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging. — Ferdinand Lundberg Copy Share Image
Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. — Christopher Anderson Copy Share Image
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image