#retiring

The good thing about being old is not being young. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#ageism #old #old-age #old-aged #old-people

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. ↗

— Aaron Peirsol

#i #old #retiring #still #strange

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Ian Botham

#capable #difficult #end #end of the tunnel #good

When I was younger, I thought about retiring. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#i #retiring #thought #younger

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#being #else #one thing #retired #retiring

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60. ↗

— Julie Walters

#appealing #being #case #engaged #everything

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#clown #else #gave #giant #his

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#dragons #dungeons #fire #game #gold

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.' ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#had #haven #i #retired #retiring

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#fit #i #interviewed #kind #know