Top 100 Quotes About I Quit
#1. I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez
#2. To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed - have become manageable or have simply disappeared since I quit drinking.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#3. I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
Allison Tolman
#4. When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
Elizabeth Olsen
#5. It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
Mark Hoppus
#7. That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn't sound so young.
Kaye George
#8. I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.
Jean Smart
#10. If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.
Charlaine Harris
#11. In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.
Donald Hall
#12. I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
Andrew Pyper
#13. 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
#14. Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.
Eric Roberts
#15. 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
#16. I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life ... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
Chandra West
#18. I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
Morgan Freeman
#19. I launched myself at him, throwing my arms around his neck. "I quit."
He wrapped his arm around my waist, and with one quick hitch, he lifted me up. "It's about damn time.
Vi Keeland
#21. I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann
#22. I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.
Tom Selleck
#23. I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
Marjane Satrapi
#25. I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.
Tiger Woods
#26. After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.
Ron Ben-Israel
#27. You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
David James Elliott
#28. I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.
Joe Manganiello
#29. I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
Joseph Joubert
#30. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.
Eric Thomas
#31. To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.
Rob Machado
#32. I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
Karen Allen
#33. I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
Freddie Hubbard
#34. I can't say 'no' to an interesting role. I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
Helen Mirren
#36. Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
Elton John
#37. I quit! I feel so much better, as if anything is possible. I'm free!
Paula Hawkins
#38. If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.
Anonymous
#39. 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
#41. I accept that keeping in shape doesn't come naturally, so I work hard. I hit the gym every day: Pilates, yoga, weights. I used to love wine but I've stopped drinking. I quit smoking and I'll never start again.
Linda Evangelista
#42. That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, "I never meant to be a lawman. Stumbled into it, really. When I quit, it was a weight off." Dealing
Mary Doria Russell
#43. I've never retired. And I've never said, "I quit."
Parnelli Jones
#44. When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
Sharon Olds
#45. I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.
Agnes Varda
#46. I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.
Michael Angarano
#47. I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
Barry Sanders
#48. When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.
Alison Bechdel
#49. At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.
Sandy Adams
#51. I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
Elia Kazan
#52. I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
Macaulay Culkin
#53. I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
Doc Watson
#54. I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Robert Quine
#56. How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.
Nick Nolte
#57. I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
Mariel Hemingway
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
Lance Armstrong
#61. I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
Malik Bendjelloul
#62. I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.
Gloria Stuart
#63. I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.
Ron White
#64. I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.
Missy Peregrym
#65. In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
David Spade
#66. 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
#67. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.
Anne Rice
#68. I joined Khalsa College just opposite Don Bosco in class XI, but soon I quit studies and was sent to Bangkok by my father to learn martial arts, as that is the only place we could afford given that I would also work there to support my training.
Akshay Kumar
#69. 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
#70. I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.
Michael Gira
#71. I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
Lloyd Waner
#72. If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
Little Richard
#73. The day I can't pull something useful out of my ass is the day I quit sticking things up my ass.
Sean Gibson
#74. I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
Hugh Hefner
#75. There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit ... retire!
Groucho Marx
#76. I never aspired to be the PM ... Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh
Tuhin A. Sinha
#77. I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.
Conor Maynard
#78. 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
#79. The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.
Robert Stone
#80. I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
Tom Petty
#81. I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.
Kristin Kreuk
#82. I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.
Brie Larson
#83. Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!
Bill Maher
#84. Ambrosio, learn to know me better. I love you for your virtues: Lose them, and with them you lose my affections. I look upon you as a Saint; Prove to me that you are no more than Man, and I quit you with disgust.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#85. Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.
James Dashner
#86. I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.
George Carlin
#87. Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I'd wanted him dead, don't you think he'd be dead? It's not like I quit hitting him because I was tired.
James S.A. Corey
#88. 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
#89. 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
#91. I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.
Ben Fountain
#92. Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain ... That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.
Schoolboy Q
#93. 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
#94. I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.
Tiger Woods
#95. 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
#96. When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
Paige Rense
#97. 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
#98. I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.
Gloria Steinem
#99. When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
Tony Fernandes
#100. And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
Mark Ruffalo
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