Retirement Party Quotes

#1. Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.

Lisa Harris

#2. In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

Artie Lange

#3. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.

Sandra Harner

#4. Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Melissa Etheridge

#5. Self-confidence Formula

Napoleon Hill

#6. Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

Kieran Culkin

#7. When you live life connected to purpose, you don't have to chase opportunities, they come to you.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#8. There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.

Michael Ondaatje

#9. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

Sylvia Plath

#10. The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation ... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. Addiction by any other name is love.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Often things are as bad as they seem.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#13. The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

Charles Taylor Manatt

#14. This is fucking magic, she thought. This isn't some story out of one of Tommy's books. This isn't something you can experiment with in the bathroom. This is not natural, and whatever I am, it isn't natural. A vampire is magic, not science.

Christopher Moore

#15. Keep quiet and say one's prayers - certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

Elizabeth Von Arnim