Retiring Quotes - Page 31

• A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

  J. G. Holland

  Memories, Struggle, Home

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• You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Jobs, Wanted

  "Ozzy Osbourne: What I've Learned". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

  Robert Redford

  Havens, Dies

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• I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

  Tim Gunn

  Teacher, Careers, Wonderful

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• Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
  This unfrequented place to find some ease.

  John Milton

  Retirement, Ease, Noise

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.172

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• My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

  David Spade

  Nerd, Calculators, Fellows

  "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Portland is where young people go to retire.

  Fred Armisen

  People, Portland, Young

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• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  Fernando Torres

  Team, Self, Important

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

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• I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Dream, Country, House

  Source: www.levity.com

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• 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, Great Things

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

  Dieter Rams

  Thinking, Drawing, Designer

  "Dieter Rams, Designer of Stereos, Shavers and Shelves". Interview with Rima Suqi, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

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• All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

  Grace Slick

  Stupid, Rocks, Age

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• When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Thinking, People, Want

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• As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

  David Rubenstein

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

  Peter Mayle

  Book, Government, Years

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

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running

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• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Men, Years, Bored

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• I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

  Gordon Taylor

  Player, Coaching, Want

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• What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

  Stanley Bing

  Loyalty, Passion, Dedication

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• I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Home, Media, Social

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• So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Oil, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.161

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• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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• I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

  Megan Mullally

  Gone, Comedy, Dignity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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

  "Tom Ford Unzipped: Interview Transcript". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

  Walter Wriston

  Aging

  1985 In the New York Times, 21 Apr.

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