Never Quit famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
-- Al Sharpton -
The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
-- Alex Haley -
When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
-- Angie Stone -
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
-- Annie Lennox -
I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.
-- Ashley Jensen -
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
-- Aynsley Dunbar -
Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
-- Ben Mikaelsen -
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
-- Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. -
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
-- Betty White -
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
-- Brett Somers -
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai
-- Carlson Gracie -
Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
-- Charles Simic -
Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.
-- Chuck Aaron -
You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.
-- Cobi Jones -
You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.
-- Cyril Clarke -
Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.
-- Dave Chappelle -
Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.
-- Dave McKean -
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
-- David Niven -
Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
-- David Prowse -
Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.
-- Diane Chamberlain -
Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.
-- Diane Keaton -
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
-- Duke Ellington -
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
-- Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
-- Edward Weston -
Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
-- Eric Sevareid -
A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.
-- Fred Thompson -
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.
-- Geoff Dyer -
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
-- George Lucas -
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
-- Georges Simenon -
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
-- Gloria Steinem -
As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
-- Gunther Schuller -
Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.
-- Gus Franklin Mutscher -
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
-- Hal Price -
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
-- Harold Washington -
I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.
-- Hector Elizondo -
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
-- Honore de Balzac -
The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
-- Isaac Asimov -
So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.
-- James Marsters -
I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.
-- Jan Brewer -
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.
-- Jim Caviezel -
The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how
-- Joel Plaskett -
Always seek the general and never quite trust it.
-- Joseph Epstein -
People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
-- Joseph Jarman -
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure
-- Julie Christie -
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
-- Kelly Macdonald -
You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.
-- Mark Cuban -
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
-- Martin McDonagh -
I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.
-- Martin Scorsese -
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
-- Mary Todd Lincoln -
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
-- Mary Tyler Moore -
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
-- Meredith Monk -
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
-- Michael Korda -
Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.
-- Monica Dickens -
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
-- Peter Shaffer -
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
-- Peter York -
The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.
-- Rachel Dratch -
A black belt is a white belt who never quits!
-- Renzo Gracie -
Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.
-- Rex Stout -
Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.
-- Richard B. Garnett -
With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
-- Robbie Williams -
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
-- Robert Frost -
When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
-- Robert Rodriguez -
You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."
-- Sandra Bullock -
One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.
-- Seymour Krim -
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.
-- Simon McBurney -
When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.
-- Squarepusher -
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.
-- Stephanie Mills -
I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant...
-- Stephen Fry -
I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.
-- Steve Israel -
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
-- Susan Wiggs -
I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.
-- Sutton Foster -
You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.
-- Tarryn Fisher -
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
-- Ted Kotcheff -
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
-- Tilda Swinton -
Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.
-- Tim McGraw -
We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.
-- Tony La Russa -
Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work
-- Usain Bolt -
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
-- Virginia C. Andrews -
Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.
-- William Poundstone -
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.
-- Cosima Spender -
It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches the traction you know it deserves. But either way it doesn't change the book, it doesn't change how much I love that book, or how thrilled I am to be publishing it.
-- Danielle Dutton -
I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote.
-- Debra Dean