Quotes About Amateur

Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by Raffles and Sherlock Holmes, or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox. 'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter

Murder, you see, is an amateur crime. I'm speaking of course of the kind of murder you have in mind - not gangster stuff. One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or they've wanted something very badly, money or a woman - and they've killed to get it. The brake that operates with most of us doesn't operate with them.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

I fought Culcay as an amateur in the 2007 world championships, so we have some history together in the ring.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Un écrivain professionnel est un amateur qui n'a pas renoncé.

Un escritor profesional es un amateur que no se rinde

I already have a doctorate in conflict investment. I don't really need the gifted-amateur reading list.

sk?pstu padar?šanas dom?tas amatieriem un diletantiem ieš??cen?s. ?stu sievieti iekaro mazpamaz?m. T? ir t?r? psiholo?ija, t?pat k? laba v?ršu c??a ar?n?.

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.