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
It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
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
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession.… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession… — Kim Gandy Copy Share Image
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his… — Dick Latvala Copy Share Image
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. — Miriam Defensor Santiago Copy Share Image
I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right. — George Meany Copy Share Image
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan Copy Share Image