Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.
Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.
A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous. ' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.
An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.
I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.
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.
Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?
When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.
In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right.
I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition. . . Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.
If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.
Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.
Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.
Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.
When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.