I Quit Quotes

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

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

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

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.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

I've never retired. And I've never said, "I quit."

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

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

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.

I never quit my job until I had my next job.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

Rest when you need to, but never quit.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.