Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession. — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love hip-hop and R&B. People always say, "You are dark, you make dark dresses. You probably only love The Cure or… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve. — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life.… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image