Retiring Quotes - Page 25

• I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Yugoslavia, Issues

  The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

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• My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.

  Justin Bieber

  Beloved, Beliebers

  Justin Bieber @justinbieber, twitter.com. December 24, 2013.

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  Thoughtful, People, Kind

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• You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

  Tony Parker

  Technology, Games, Use

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.

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• The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

  Jo Durie

  Decision, Gone, Body

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• I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

  Sete Gibernau

  Class, Racing, Unforgettable Moments

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• It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Long, Decision

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

  Vinnie Vincent

  Years, Remember, Plans

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• If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Spiritual, Retirement, Lying

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• We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world - we're not in the Industrial Revolution anymore, where you could leave high school, go work at the town factory for 50 years, and retire with a pension.

  Marco Rubio

  School, Years, Towns

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Believe, Office, Voting

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• I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

  Kenneth Clarke

  Trying, Politics, Influence

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• Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.

  David Cay Johnston

  Senior, Fashion, Children

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• We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

  David Gergen

  Sports, Office, Vote

  1993 In US News & World Report, 10 May.

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• I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

  Neil Kinnock

  Summer, Football, Winter

  1980 In The Times, 28 Jul.

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• So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.

  Wayne Teasdale

  War, Past, Thinking

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• I honestly can't ever imagine retiring because I don't know what else I would do - even when I'm on holiday, 70% of the time I'm working. I think I'd like to go out on the job so, ideally, 'And the winner is... Ooooh, and he's gone!'

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Holiday, Thinking

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Leather Pants, Law, Practice

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

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Want, Pixar

  As quoted in Fortune, February 23, 2004.

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• I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Office, Debt

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.211, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Retirement, Sex

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• I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

  Betty White

  Thinking, People, Larks

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• I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

  Tyra Banks

  Retirement, Jobs, Hate

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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