Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

P. T. Barnum

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

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.