Profession Quotes - page 29

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all. (Charlie Hunnam)
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard. View quote
Russ Feingold
I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession. View quote
Jonathan Stroud
For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers. View quote
Julian Assange
When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm." This may or may not be true as regards the individual. But it always does very great harm to the community to encourage ignorance, error, or deception in a profession which deals with the life and health of our fellow-creatures. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons. View quote
Bill Parcells
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. View quote
William Osler
It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. View quote
William Osler
I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching. (Tom Lehrer)
Being a musician is a noble profession. View quote
Paul Weller (singer)
I hold every man a debtor to his profession. View quote
Francis Bacon
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. View quote
Dick Cavett
As a profession advertising is young as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, 'Let there be light,' constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one. View quote
Paul Newman
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession,and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. View quote
Douglas Adams
In any profession it gets to be a grind. View quote
Denzel Washington
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause. View quote
Thomas More
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. (Thomas More)
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. View quote
Thomas More
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus