Retired Quotes

• And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

  

  John Milton
  • Pleasure
  • Leisure
  • Gardens

• It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

  

  Michael East
  • Athlete
  • Probably
  • Years Ago

• I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Retired
  • Jay-Z
  • Doing shows

• There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Done
  • Basketball
  • Cases

• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  

  William Congreve
  • Tea
  • Ends
  • Ancient

• I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

  

  George Washington
  • Satisfaction
  • Solitary
  • Retired

• I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Interest
  • Senior

• Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • Trash
  • Skis
  • Landfills

• If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Forever
  • Body
  • Creating

• I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

  

  Fauja Singh
  • Able
  • Retired
  • Spiritually

• The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • God
  • Business
  • Theory

• I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

  

  Bobcat Goldthwait
  • Movies
  • Following
  • Stopped

• I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • School
  • Age
  • Mean

• The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

  

  George Washington
  • Business
  • Together
  • Paper

• I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Career
  • Feeling
  • Retired

• I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Enough
  • Havens
  • Prerogative

• Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brain

• I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Football
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

  

  Bart Cummings
  • Time
  • Bored
  • Retired

• I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Doors
  • Retired

• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Home
  • Book
  • Mother

• My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Scripts
  • Mentality
  • Retired

• The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.

  

  Walter Kiechel
  • Important
  • Teaching
  • Academic

• I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

  

  Bill Murray
  • Retired
  • Couple of times

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