Quitting Quotations

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Now that I'm gettin old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

(My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, (that) their kind of comedy was old-fashioned.

One time, ... I was doing 'Studs Place,' my early TV show, and I'm supposed to be quitting cigars and I'm yearning for a smoke and I quote from the 'Odyssey.' I say, I am Ulysses passing the Isle of Circe. Meaning I got these temptations. Truck drivers called in and said they liked the classical reference.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

I am so happy for these girls. It would have been so disappointing to come here and finish second two years in a row. There was no quitting in them. We refused to lose this time.

I ended up quitting an all-star squad in Canada last year because I wasn't comfortable with what they were doing.

Giving up could reverse the condition if it hasn't gone too far. If it's already severe, quitting will stop it getting any worse.

I don't think it's a seller's market. I think you wait to see how the rest of this month goes. You cruise into September and you have a better idea. You don't go off selling people now or you are quitting right now. Now is not the time.

But we hope our findings of an association will lead to further examination of this important issue. Perhaps it will help give smokers one more reason to quit, and encourage quitting smoking among those who are also trying to control their drinking.

Some of the largest promotions come from quitting one employer and moving on and up with another employer,

Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time.

It gets to the point where maybe the kids need to hear a new voice. I always tell the kids you should never quit. I'm not quitting on them, but maybe there comes a point in time where you just can't do it there anymore.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.

That's what happens when you break a team down. It isn't quitting because they know the game is over.

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.