Sentence examples for quit to devote from inspiring English sources

Eidos said he quit to devote more time to technology and mining interests, including South African gold mines.

In January, after 12 years in software, he quit to devote himself full time to his online store, Creative With Clay, which sells stoneware he designs and makes.

Mr. Landrau, a nurse, worked full time until the last stages of his wife's illness, when he quit to devote himself to her care.

Or a necessary path to awareness?" Mr. Curren, who first worked as a political consultant in Washington and then quit to devote himself to running a Buddhist center, Bodhi Path, in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, describes the big dating Web sites as "supermarkets".

In 1964 he quit filmmaking to devote himself to painting.

A decade ago, she quit acting to devote more time to one of her first loves: directing theatre.

In 2001 Mrs. Wilson quit teaching to devote more time to SAT prep.

"In the 90's, I quit baseball to devote my own time to my son," Torres said Wednesday.

He could commute from New Jersey, and Ms. Taggart, who had quit working to devote herself to being a painter, could continue being a suburban artist-housewife.

The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. Paradoxically, the writer's own labors as a child were prodigious, involuntary and underpaid; he worked like a dog from the age of six onwards for no other compensation than a weekly allowance.

After delivering memorable performances in Atom Egoyan's Exotica (1994) and an episode of the children's series Straight Up (1996), at age 17 she left school and quit acting to devote herself to left-wing political activism, a period that lasted several years.