"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."

-- Asa Gray

#Calling Quotes #Members Quotes #Profession Quotes

“I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.”
“I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.”
“The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.”
“My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.”
“When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.”
“I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.”
“The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.”

Source : "Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.
“I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.”

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