Never Quit Quotes - Page 6

• There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Space, Solitude, Horizon

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.81, 谷月社

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• Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

  Elinor Glyn

  Zoos, Animal, Land

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• I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Eye, Campaigns, Looks

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

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Way, Keep Going

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• The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

  Alex Haley

  Success, Perseverance, Humble

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• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Family, Mom, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Drama, Elusive

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Long, Watches

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• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

  Andre Gide

  Communication, Learning, Knowledge

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• In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Order, Ignorant, Facts

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• My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Team, Past

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• If you grew up Protestant in Ireland, of course, at least in the twentieth century, there was always a contingent that would never really consider you Irish. Meanwhile in Britain you'd
  never quite be considered British. You fell into a gap in the definitions.

  Nick Laird

  Ireland

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.

  Toby Jones

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Gratitude, Quitting

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Track, Trying, Skins

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• 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.

  Cosima Spender

  School, Parent, Obsessed

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

  Michael Korda

  People, Charisma, Knows

  "Power: How To Get It, How To Use It". Book by Michael Korda, 1975.

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

  George Saunders

  Actors, Process, Understood

  "Susan Sarandon". Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.

  Condola Rashad

  People, Expectations, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true. Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Mother, Dream, Self

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Ninety Nine, Funeral

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mind, Trying, Articles

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• My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

  Joe Montana

  Mother, Dad, Father

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

  David Niven

  Work Out, Circus, Ends

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