Quotes About Semi Retirement

#1. Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

Mary Balogh

#2. I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

Pat Morita

#3. The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand.

Brian Greene

#4. The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.

Keith Ferrazzi

#5. If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

Weegee

#6. A radiant fellowship of the fallen.

Joshua Chamberlain

#7. Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Orson Scott Card

#8. I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

Denis Villeneuve

#9. History is sensitive dependent on initial conditions. You cannot predict the future.

Maureen F. McHugh

#10. I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

Moby

#11. There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

#12. I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

Bert Kalmar

#13. I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

John O'Keefe

#14. Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Bill Vaughan