Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.