I Quit Quotes - Page 7

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

  Karen Allen

  Eight, Years, Smoking

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• It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

  Mark Hoppus

  Drinking, Marijuana, Voice

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• I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

  Shelley Berman

  Marijuana, Years, Smoking

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• After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

  Lloyd Alexander

  College, Quitting, Saved

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• I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Jobs, Quitting

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• In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

  Anne Rice

  Names, Quitting, Christianity

  "Anne Rice: ‘I Quit Being A Christian’" by Jessie Kunhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2010.

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Jobs, Dancing, Quitting

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• Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

  Herb Ritts

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

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

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Talking, Done

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• It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.

  Merle Haggard

  Home, Thinking, Mad

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• I quit driving, I'm not retired.

  Richard Petty

  Driving, Quitting, Retired

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

  Joyce Meyer

  Trying, Quitting

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Regret, Home

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• I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Success, Frustration, Firsts

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• I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  Olga Korbut

  Gymnastics, Nineteen, Six

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• I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Long, Afternoon

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, College, Years

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

  Bernie Taupin

  Years, Interviews, Quitting

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Architecture

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• I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

  Brad Pitt

  Quitting

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• I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction…You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game.

  Mercury Morris

  Games, Had Enough, Quitting

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• All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

  Larry Hagman

  Hero, Years, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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