Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.
My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon. "
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.
My first occupation was to map the country.
Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
You can't have occupation and human rights.
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.