Quit Quotes

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

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.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

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

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

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.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.