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Quotes About Retired

It was only after I'd had some injuries that I basically retired from the performing side of show business and then began working in casting. I did that for 19 years or so before a friend of mine decided to cast me as Phyllis Lapin-Vance on 'The Office.'
~ Phyllis Smith
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
~ Barry Hannah
September 3rd, 2017, the Italian Grand Prix on the F1 Ferrari team radio, Alonso asked: "Where's Palmer?" "Retired" the team reply "Karma" said Alonso
~ Fernando Alonso
His hair was a reformed mullet by way of a retired hockey player who now did color commentary on a local television station.
~ Harlan Coben
I was at an ESPN event in the United States, the awards ceremony, and I got approached by the WWE. I had just retired, and, it's a form of competition, but of course, it's also scripted, so I don't know if I'd be willing to relive that. Perhaps for a special event, so I could taste it.
~ Georges St-Pierre
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
~ Patricia Schroeder
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
~ Kerry Washington
My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.
~ Margot Lee Shetterly
Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
~ Henry Adams
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
~ Amy Bloom
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
~ James O'Shaughnessy
I grew up a huge wrestling fan. My grandfather, who was a minister and retired when I was a young kid in Sweetwater, Texas, lived right near us. He was a big wrestling fan.
~ John Layfield
My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
~ Ian Watson
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
~ Lauryn Hill
Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.
~ Robert Stromberg
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.
~ Rob Sheffield
When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. That's how highly I think of him.
~ Chael Sonnen
I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
~ Dan Crenshaw
I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
~ Rick Astley
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
~ John Burroughs
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
~ Peter O'Toole
Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
~ Antony Johnston
I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.
~ Paul Allen