#profess

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#always #college #educated #go #i

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#along #around #decades #feel #give

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #commoner #cooks #members #murder

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#ambassador #bigger #bring #chess #events

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#assured #columbia #connection #had #me

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. ↗

— John Avlon

#always #conspiracy #divide #far-left #left wing

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding. ↗

— Travis Barker

#breaking #had #half #i #kept

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#before #comfortable #disciplined #his #jack

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#devoted #fifty #i #life #professional