Quotes About Profession

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of their profession.

There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.

I make a good income and I only kill a reasonable number of my patients. How's that?

Monsieur, if a doctor walks along the street and an accident happens, does he say, 'I have retired from my profession, I will continue my walk', when there is some one bleeding to death at his feet? If I had been already in Nice, and the police had sent to me and asked me to assist them, I should have refused. But this affair, the good God thrust it upon me.

My dear Caroline," I said. "There's no doubt at all about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his." Caroline dissented. She said that if the man was a hairdresser, he would have wavy hair—not straight. All hairdressers did.

When she saw the severed head she fainted dead away. What can I say, she's a woman." "I don't know what it has to do with being a woman," Daiyu responded in a serious tone of voice. "I think anyone might faint at such a ghoulish sight. I mean, if this weren't our job, a few of us might be under a doctor's care right about now." The investigator looked properly chastened,

Crime doesn't pay," I said to Sirius, "unless you're a lawyer.

People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.

We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.

I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.