Best 153 quotes in «never quit quotes» category

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

If you never quit, youll never fail.

I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

I never back down and I never quit!

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

I never quit. I just got fired.

It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches the traction you know it deserves. But either way it doesn't change the book, it doesn't change how much I love that book, or how thrilled I am to be publishing it.

It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.

I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

My goal is to never quit.

My stories are never quite good enough

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

Never Quit, Never backdown.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

Never quit. Never give up.

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.