#profess

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

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

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#because #enough #even #father #grandfather

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#began #i #naive #professionally

We'll do it, we'll do it. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#come #especially #hard #know #material

And I'm proud of what I do as a professional, too. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#i do #professional #proud #too

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beautiful #beautiful art #profession #wretched

...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life