Professions Quotes

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of ...

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Few great men could pass personnel.

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because ...

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a...

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when yo...

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not...

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very import...

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.