All Quotes

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.
‐‐ Stella Young

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

I quickly realised that there is no 'I' in team. So I am so fortunate to have a supportive family that has been there for me since day one.
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.
‐‐ Brad Grey

I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
‐‐ Maria Semple

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
‐‐ John Lasseter

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.
‐‐ Lena Dunham

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

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

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

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
‐‐ Allen Neuharth

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
‐‐ Barry Mann

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.
‐‐ Julie Doucet

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.
‐‐ Hulk Hogan

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
‐‐ Freddie Hubbard

I quit driving, I'm not retired.
‐‐ Richard Petty

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
‐‐ Billy Bob Thornton

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
‐‐ Barry White

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
‐‐ Bam Margera

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I will be known as 'Dallas' starring Larry Hagman and the cast.' And at this point in my career - I was in my mid to late 30s - I thought, 'Now is the time when it's hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.'
‐‐ Patrick Duffy

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.
‐‐ Kristin Kreuk

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

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

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

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.
‐‐ Marcello Giordani

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I quit politics because I hated it.
‐‐ Roger Ailes

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
‐‐ Rocky Graziano

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

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
‐‐ Shelley Berman

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.
‐‐ John Mayer

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

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
‐‐ Richard Lewis

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.
‐‐ Dewitt Bodeen

I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's.
‐‐ Gotye

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

I quite enjoy science fiction.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.
‐‐ Robin Quivers