Occupational Hazard Quotes

#1. I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all of my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as an occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cow disease.

Dominic Monaghan

#2. Occupation: Writer
Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel
Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping
Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

Christy Hall

#3. Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Queen Victoria

#4. It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

Richard J. Foster

#5. I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

James Cosmo

#6. Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Kent Beck

#7. Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Dan Quisenberry

#8. But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

Bjorn Lomborg

#9. It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Ally Carter

#10. Hello, Lady Witch," he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again."
"Occupational hazard," Lily mumbled...

Josephine Angelini

#11. I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

#12. Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.

Peter Landesman

#13. The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

Germaine Greer

#14. A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. When most of us hear the word cells, we think biology. I think penitentiary. (It's an occupational hazard.)

Reginald Dipwipple

#16. Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!

Gail Simmons

#17. The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

John Stott

#18. Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

Calvin Trillin

#19. Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

Damon Galgut

#20. My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

Norman Pirie

#21. Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Harriet Lerner

#22. I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

Viola Davis

#23. When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

David Morrissey

#24. He shrugged. "occupational hazard of being a research assistant to a total dick".

Sylvain Reynard

#25. A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.

Alice McDermott

#26. She's an old woman possessed of great powers
but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.

Catherynne M Valente

#27. The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Thomas McGuane

#28. If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.

Cormac McCarthy

#29. The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Henry Mintzberg

#30. My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

Mary McCarthy

#31. My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around ...

Jimmy Buffett