Retiring famous quotes

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Retiring

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
-- Andy Rooney

#Writing #Retiring

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
-- Andy Rooney

#Powerful #Writing #Retiring

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.
-- Anne McLellan

#Ideas #Retiring #Pension

Photography is not something you retire from.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Photography #Retiring

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Character #Retiring #Thyself

I never use that word, retire.
-- B. B. King

#Use #Retiring

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Patience #Retiring

I don't know the right way to retire.
-- Barry Sanders

#Way #Retiring

A man can't retire his experience.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Men #Experience #Retiring

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
-- Billy Joel

#People #Funny Retirement #Retiring

What do gardeners do when they retire?
-- Bob Monkhouse

#Age #Retiring #Gardener

I don't intend to retire.
-- Bobby Knight

#Basketball #Retiring

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
-- Brenda Blethyn

#Ambition #Retiring #My Ambition

I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.
-- Brian Clough

#Years #Moments #Retiring

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.
-- Carnie Wilson

#Wish #Retiring

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Thinking #Retiring

If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Character #Thinking #Retiring

I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.
-- Cristina Saralegui

#Interesting #Retiring

I'm retiring because my time is up.
-- Dave Hickey

#Retiring

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
-- David Niven

#Roles #Actors #Retiring

My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.
-- David Spade

#Nerd #Calculators #Retiring

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
-- Denzel Washington

#Acting #Retiring #Great Things

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
-- Desmond Llewelyn

#Actors #Retiring

I hope to be an actor and never retire.
-- Dominic Monaghan

#Actors #Retiring

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.
-- Don Howe

#Years #Careers #Retiring

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.
-- Doug Flutie

#Retiring #Feels

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
-- Drew Bledsoe

#Play #Desire #Retiring

Retire? I will never retire.
-- Eckhard Pfeiffer

#Retiring

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
-- Edmund Waller

#World #Admire #Retiring

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
-- Elvin Bishop

#Football #Play #Retiring

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
-- Ernie J Zelinski

#Retirement #Burden #Retiring

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
-- George Burns

#Aging #Retiring #Shows

Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.
-- Greg Meyer

#Mistake #Bigs #Retiring

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life,
-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Running #Retiring

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
-- Harriet Martineau

#Modesty #Fidelity #Retiring

If you're going to retire, retire early.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Retiring

I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.
-- John Paul DeJoria

#Retiring

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.
-- Justin Bieber

#Beloved #Retiring #Beliebers

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.
-- Kristin Cavallari

#Long #Hot #Retiring

Actors can't retire. What would they do?
-- Larry Hagman

#Actors #Retiring

the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Shy #Littles #Retiring

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.
-- Leonard Slatkin

#Thinking #People #Retiring

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.
-- Li Na

#Want #Housewife #Retiring

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
-- Loretta Lynn

#Dishes #Retiring

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
-- Louise Mensch

#Want #Retiring

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
-- Marat Safin

#Retirement #Answers #Retiring

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
-- Marianne Faithfull

#Feds #Retiring #Fed Up

People retire to do what I do every day.
-- Mark McCormack

#People #Retiring

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.
-- Martin Fleischmann

#Retiring

I will die, but not retire.
-- Michael Palin

#Retiring

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
-- Michael Phelps

#Funny Retirement #Done #Retiring

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
-- Mickey Rooney

#Inspire #Retiring #Keep Going

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done
-- Mickey Rooney

#Inspire #Done #Retiring

The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire
-- Mike Hawthorn

#Retiring

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
-- Mos Def

#Names #Funny Retirement #Retiring

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
-- Ogden Nash

#Fun #Debt #Retiring

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
-- Ozzie Smith

#Sports #Thinking #Retiring

To retire is to begin to die.
-- Pablo Casals

#Retirement #Retiring

To retire is the beginning of death.
-- Pablo Casals

#Aging #Retiring

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
-- Penelope Keith

#Thinking #Actors #Retiring

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.
-- Peyton Manning

#Play #Want #Retiring

You can't put off being young until you retire.
-- Philip Larkin

#Retirement #Young #Retiring

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
-- R. C. Sproul

#Cold #Fingers #Retiring

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.
-- Ray Charles

#Like You #Retiring

I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.
-- Regis Philbin

#Talent #Retiring

I'm never going to retire.
-- Rene Auberjonois

#Retiring

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
-- Rickey Henderson

#Baseball #Retiring #Retired

I'm a performer. We don't retire.
-- Robert Goulet

#Retiring #Performers

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
-- Sara Blakely

#Want #Stilettos #Retiring

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire
-- Shahid Afridi

#Intention #Cricket #Retiring

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
-- Shirley Bassey

#Age #Retiring #Show Business

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
-- Stephan Pastis

#Running #Needs #Retiring

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?
-- Steve Jobs

#Running #Retiring

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
-- Tanya Tucker

#Retirement #Funny Retirement #Retiring

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
-- Ted Knight

#Crazy #Drive Me Crazy #Retiring

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.
-- Terri Clark

#Thinking #Retiring #Not Ready

Ride it when you retire.
-- Terry Bradshaw

#Football #Best Football #Retiring

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
-- Thierry Henry

#Retirement #Stopping #Retiring

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
-- Thomas Moore

#Vanity #Wife #Retiring

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
-- Tim McIlrath

#Lexicon #Retiring

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
-- Tom Ford

#Want #Retiring

Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.
-- Tony Gaskins

#Jobs #Retiring

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
-- Vinnie Vincent

#Years #Remember #Retiring

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
-- Walter Lippmann

#Men #Monasteries #Retiring

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
-- Walter Wriston

#Aging #Retiring

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
-- Will Harvey

#Practice #Retiring

I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.
-- Connie Kalitta

#Retiring #Racers

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
-- Phillip Knightley

#Stories #Bigs #Retiring

I need to retire from retirement.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

#Retirement #Needs #Retiring

It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.
-- Alex Zanardi

#Speak #Retiring #I Can

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
-- Elvin Bishop

#Football #Play #Retiring

Retiring is getting ready to die.
-- Rodger Ward

#Retiring #Ready To Die #Ready

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
-- Eve Bunting

#Book #Writing #Retiring

Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.
-- Greg Meyer

#Mistake #Bigs #Retiring

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.
-- Tony Parker

#Sports #Retiring #Satisfied

I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.
-- Kevin Drew

#Differences #Bigs #Retiring

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.
-- Kyle Busch

#Want #Able #Retiring