Never Quit Quotes - Page 4

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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

You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.

My stories are never quite good enough

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

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

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.

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

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.