#mercenary

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#endeavor #mercenary #pro #very

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#cynical #itself #mercenary #people #press

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing. ↗

— David Johansen

#auditioning #happens #hate #i #love

Hi. I'm here to enlist. You can't. You aren't human. You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces." We're a crack company of space mercenaries. We do "hurting people" and "breaking things." Sounds like my kind of fun. -Schlock & Lieutenant Der Trihs ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #mercenary #violence #sociology

I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say? "I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mercenary #business

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#everyone #get #last #leaving #man

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#hard #hard working #i #killer #mercenary

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#mercenary #music #music

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. ↗

— David Gill

#mercenary #out #people #players #quite