quotes about Noble Profession

“All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!”

“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.”

“That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.”

“It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

“Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.”

“Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.”

Source : Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins (2011). “Selected Plays”, p.97, Northwestern University Press

“we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.”

Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1919). “The Little Colonel's House Party”

“My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.”

Source : "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

“In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.”