John Milton Quotes

The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

I never thought I'd be able to go back to Ukraine.

I'd love to retire in terms of not having to go to work anymore and earn a living.

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me

I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.