Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.
Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.
Absence of occupation is not rest.
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor. '
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.
Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.