#tired

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#because #best #clear #could #day

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#go #gone #hard #i #illustration

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#except #fresh #his #hopeful #mind

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#because #been #eight #hard #i

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#grew #i #immediately #knee #seated

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#called #ever #first #friend #friends

How can you get tired of playing golf? ↗

— Raymond Floyd

#golf #how #playing #tired #you

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#another #best #birth #birth control #borrow