I Quit Quotes - Page 2

• My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Television, Quitting

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Fine. You win. I quit. You two deal with this. I’m going home. Packing up all my personal items, and when you, Caleb, end up dead because the coach has your jockstrap or something else I didn’t steal but someone else did, don’t call me. I’m done and I’m going to hide in a bunker until all of this is over with.” – Nick “I hate you, Nick.” – Caleb “Feels mutual, Demon.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Home, Winning

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• 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.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Drinking, Bridges, Life Sucks

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough

  Thierry Mugler

  Fashion, People, Looks

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• We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Brain, Generations

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Sharon Olds

  Quitting, Said

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Latin, Simple, English Grammar

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Airplane, Years, Flying

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• 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.

  Nomi Prins

  Wall, Quitting, Changed

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

  Charlaine Harris

  Fun, Quitting, Ifs

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• As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".

  Stevie Nicks

  Stars, Rocks, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did all the usual things. I think I did everything that everybody else does. I did auditions. I went to see people. I went to see the right people in some instances, the wrong people in others. The wrong time in others. The right time in others. Nothing seemed to make any difference. I quit 5 times! I always went back to try again when circumstances came around to it.

  Frankie Laine

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

  Grace Jones

  Reality, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Real, Track

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• I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

  Richard North Patterson

  Years, Firsts, Quitting

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• 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.

  Loretta Lynn

  People, Missing, Quitting

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• Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.

  Jermichael Finley

  Couple, Games, Pittsburgh

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• In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

  Fred Melamed

  Careers, Long, Acting

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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

  Harold Ramis

  Reading, Quitting, Playboy

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• I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

  Darrell Royal

  Bored, Quitting, Young

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• I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Smoking, World, Want

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• The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

  William Shatner

  Hurt, Essence, Balls

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

  Steven Spielberg

  College, Lockers, Quitting

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• I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

  Steven Tyler

  New York, Fighting, Player

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• There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

  Carrie Underwood

  Reading, Mean, Idols

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