What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract-the Constitution-made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

A week after Fred and George's departure, Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, "It unscrews the other way.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn't believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

I can't give a Professor love!

"Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?

Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle- Flint alongside her -poke him in the eye, Angelina -it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...

Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She ? er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?

I'd tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don't know what that means, seek it. If you're following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you've ever felt.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

All I do really is go to work and try to be professional be on time and be prepared.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it they work in it because they excel.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this get out of the profession.