| "A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life." »Queen Christina |
| "Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult." »Sir Laurence Olivier |
| "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil." »Hippocrates |
| "Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money." »Blessing Irish |
| "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." »H.L. Mencken |
| "On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford |
| "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." »Jessamyn West |
| "Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight." »Henry Robinson Luce |
| "Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never." »Edna Ferber |
| "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton |
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