Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.
I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.
One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy.
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.
While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped.
It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?
She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course. " he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.
When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.
I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror. ' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.
Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.