Retiring Quotes - Page 12

• I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

  Franz Kafka

  Silent, Discontent, Persons

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• If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dog, Home, Bird

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• Retire me to my Milan, where
  Every third thought shall be my grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Mortality, Graves

  William Shakespeare, Ernest Fleischer, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1830). “... The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies, left by the late Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, and Edmond Malone ...”, p.18

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• You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

  Michael Caine

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

  Hal Holbrook

  Hate, Thinking, Desire

  "Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 2, 2014.

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• Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

  Chris Hayes

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.

  Connie Kalitta

  Racers

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• I'm not just retiring from the runway, I'm retiring from all modeling. God, I love saying that! When I was 18, my mom said I have to have a plan. I decided I'd leave on top. I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Running, Athlete

  "Tyra Banks struts off runway, for good". "The Associated Press" Interview, www.today.com. December 2, 2005.

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• There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, War, Men

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Teacher, New York

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

  Nas

  Dream, School, Bats

  "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.

  Usain Bolt

  Inspiration, Kids, Hard Work

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• I will never retire unless I have to.

  Dolly Parton

  "Dolly Parton on Gay Rumors, Losing a Drag Queen Look-Alike Contest and New Memoir" by Juju Chang and Victoria Thompson, abcnews.go.com. November 26, 2012.

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• I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking

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• I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

  Michael Caine

  Should, Enjoy

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• Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

  Mark Shields

  Liars, Men, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Skills, Pursue, Apex

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• In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

  George Burns

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.

  Paul Reiser

  Children, Weekend, Shallow Person

  Paul Reiser (2012). “Babyhood”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.

  Lupe Fiasco

  World, Want, Steps

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. 
  (on retiring from international football)

  Robbie Savage

  Football, Upset, Red

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• You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

  Guido Calabresi

  Volcanoes, Trying, Ends

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• No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.

  Max Kozloff

  Years, Feelings, Age

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• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  Usain Bolt

  Clothing Line, Jamaica, Trying

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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