A Quote by Mike Wallace

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

Mike Wallace

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Altogether Being Else One Thing Retired Retiring Something Something Else Thing

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Mike Wallace
American - Journalist
May 9, 1918 - April 7, 2012

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

Daley Thompson

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

Marla Gibbs

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

Joe Bonamassa

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.

Joe Calzaghe

I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

Bill Murray

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Rickey Henderson

It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

Gail Zappa

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

Ted Knight

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

Dennis L. McKiernan

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

Andre Ward

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

Colonel Sanders

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Amy Jo Martin

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Peter Lindbergh

I think it's hilarious the way Obama is depicted post-presidency. He's always kayaking or playing jai alai like he's some retired athlete or something. Like he wasn't doing the exact same thing everybody else was doing.

Bill Burr

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Deng Xiaoping

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