The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

- H. L. Mencken

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

- Penelope Lively

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

- Orison Swett Marden

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

- Nick Cave

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

- Mahmoud Darwish

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

- Louise Brooks

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

- Johanna Lindsey

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

- Jerry West

My first occupation was to map the country.

- John Hanning Speke

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

- Holly Johnson

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

- Ali Abdullah Saleh

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

- Giancarlo Esposito

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

- George Lucas

Another occupation might have been better.

- F. H. Bradley

Life: my favorite occupation.

- Dirk Benedict

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

- Dalai Lama

Writing is a solitary occupation.

- Bernard Cornwell

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

- Bashar al-Assad