Top 100 I Stop Quotes
#1. Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.
Kevin Warwick
#2. I've been through hell and back. I have, to be honest, and still I'm able to do what I do and nothing can stop me. No one can stop me, no matter what. I stop when I'm ready to stop. You know, and I'm just saying, you know, I will continue to move forward no matter what.
Michael Jackson
#3. The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
Amelie Mauresmo
#4. The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it. I still can't help but ask myself ... should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target me with?
Steve Aoki
#5. Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.
Andre Agassi
#6. The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B.B. King
#7. I was, am and always will be a student ... , the day I stop learning, is the day I die.
Terence Lewis
#8. I stop in front of Olivia and cup her face in my hands, kissing her sweetly on the mouth. She looks up at me with her liquid eyes and something in me melts away. I think to myself that I hope it wasn't something important. Something that I needed.
M. Leighton
#9. Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
Dario Argento
#10. With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;
Michel De Montaigne
#11. I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.
Pablo Picasso
#12. I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
Tom Stoppard
#13. I don't know what I am doing tomorrow. But I know one thing for sure: the day I stop enjoying my work, I will pack up and leave.
Sonakshi Sinha
#14. When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.
Hillary Jordan
#15. How can I stop worrying when I don't know if I'm going to turn out normal?" "I promise, you'll turn out normal." Are
Judy Blume
#16. You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story.
Barney Stinson
#17. Oh, oh human stupidity, probably that's why I don't succeed with mankind, somebody says "Can I stop by?" you answer "Okay..." or "Sure""... but why and saying what you are doing in case he hasn't asked you?
Deyth Banger
#18. I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.
Will Advise
#20. I walk out into the kitchen the next morning, rubbing my eyes. I stop in my tracks as I see a man standing over the stove. Naked. He has an extremely white ass and is frying something in the pan.
Chantal Fernando
#21. Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
Yoko Ono
#22. I tend to write about love because I'm always thinking about it. I think a lot though and struggle with overanalyzing. Way over. That's the thing, I feel like I do that a lot and then finally when I stop thinking, that's when it happens.
Jillian Hervey
#23. I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!
Karen A. Wyle
#24. When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.
Neil Peart
#25. Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think.
Jim Butcher
#26. I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketched out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before.
Julia Bell
#27. I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
Alan Alda
#28. When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?
Margaret O'Brien
#29. The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
Ben Folds
#30. They say never say never but we'll make an exception because:
never would I change you
never would I leave you
never would I bring you down
never ever will I stop loving you. Now change those woulds to "wills" and you'll have a better idea of me.
Hope Alcocer
#31. If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.
Sonu Nigam
#32. Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can't stop because you're ... because-
Megan Abbott
#33. I have no other choice. If I stop, I could die.
If I stop, you could die.
Julie Eshbaugh
#34. When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
Stephen Dunn
#35. Vincent to Kate: The day I stop seeing you as one of the strongest people I know is the day I wake up human.
Amy Plum
#36. Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it.
Drake
#37. I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.
Kevin Durant
#38. He's also able to accept death. He's not happy about it, but he's perfectly calm. When I stop all this treatment, it will be because it's time to stop.
Will Schwalbe
#39. But Daisy told me you're mad at God" -Violet
"Mad doesn't mean I stop believing. There are just some things I don't understand" -Mom
Brenda Woods
#40. I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.
Tupac Shakur
#41. I don't want to lose you," he says.
I stop because I finally know what I need to say.
"Gray, I'm not yours to lose.
Katie Kacvinsky
#42. I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.
Danny Garcia
#43. I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He's completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off.
Colleen Hoover
#44. Tears resurfaced. I tried to bite them back, but they bled free. And I knew they would fall endless, ceaseless, even when my eyes were dry. Never would I stop grieving her. This love was eternal.
A.L. Jackson
#45. On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop.
Richard Ford
#46. I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.
Jerry Weintraub
#47. I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.
Ziggy Marley
#48. The girls are all talking and laughing, trying to get pumped up and for just one small sliver of a moment, I stop. Taking it all in because this is something I've really missed over the last year. The comradery of a team. The sisterhood of hockey players. Girls who have your back.
Jennifer Sucevic
#49. I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments - only when I stop to rest. Without sabbath, I would be dangerously ignorant of the true condition of my soul.
Andy Crouch
#50. I like to have a good time. I'm playing a great game, so why should I stop smiling when I get on the field?
Jim Edmonds
#51. Must I keep thinking about those other people, whatever I am doing? And if I want to laugh about something, should I stop myself quickly and feel ashamed that I am cheerful? Ought I then to cry the whole day long? No, that I can't do. Besides, in time this gloom will wear off.
Anne Frank
#52. I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
Peter Saul
#53. I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
Jerome K. Jerome
#54. I stop and look back
All I see is black
I push the dark aside
And there you are
Holding my hand
Catching me when I stumble
Oh how do I get the dark to retreat?
And find my way back to you?
And who I was before
D.E. Haggerty
#55. The next morning, I am silly and light. Every time I push the smile from my face, it fights its way back. Eventually I stop suppressing it.
Veronica Roth
#57. I don't want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I'm not healed, but for this moment, I'm better.
Kerry Cohen
#58. I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them.
Terry Wogan
#59. Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?
Gwendolyn Brooks
#60. And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.
Markus Zusak
#61. I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.
Anthony Bourdain
#62. My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.
Joan Didion
#63. A word of advice," he says, as I stop in his office to say goodbye. "When you're in love with a woman, you shouldn't get involved with other women."
"Noted," I say. "Though, I would like to offer that she is probably sleeping with another man as we speak.
Tarryn Fisher
#64. As we settle together, spiraling down from bliss, I land in a space of clarity. I stop worrying if it's going to be Alayna that falls apart from this affair and start accepting that it's going to be me.
Laurelin Paige
#65. For f**k's sake, Joe. I'm not in the mood for your shit." I stop walking, crossing my arms over my chest. "Can you not judge me? Just once?
Cheryl McIntyre
#66. I see her now."
I stop and look at him. "Um, see who?"
"You. The girl I used to know.
Nyrae Dawn
#67. When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.
Frederick Lenz
#68. I stop, then, in my tracks, to recollect the awesome presence that I've left behind, the road ahead so long, my life so short, and bow my head and burst out into tears. While
Francesco Petrarca
#69. My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.
Edmond Rostand
#70. I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.
Nancy B. Brewer
#71. I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.
Katie Aselton
#72. When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
Jack Welch
#73. Why would I stop simply because I know it annoys you?
Alanea Alder
#74. Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
Tessa Dare
#75. When people say we don't want to reinvent the wheel, I stop listening: I want to reinvent the wheel!
D. Ed Hoggatt
#77. When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#78. I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands.
Ann Voskamp
#79. Sometimes I look around and wonder, how the hell did I get here? How is this my life? It all changed so fast. But then I stop wondering. Because how this life became mine doesn't really fucking matter. I'm just crazy-happy that it is.
Emma Chase
#80. My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.
W.C. Fields
#81. The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
John Lydon
#82. River that must turn full after I stop dying
Song, my song, raise grief to music
Light as my loves' thought, the few sick
So sick of wrangling: thus weeping,
Sounds of light, stay in her keeping
And my son's face - this much for honor.
Louis Zukofsky
#84. Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
Baba Kalyani
#85. When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
Barney Stinson
#86. I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.
Alain Ducasse
#87. From this moment forward ... I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.
Lance Wubbels
#88. I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going!
Laura Lynch
#89. I stop and stand in front of him, motionless - we are former lovers turned strangers.
Kim Karr
#90. Sometimes, on particularly good takes, I'm so moved that I stop "doing" the scene and just watch in awe at the miracle of good acting. As I said earlier, that's life up there. When it flows like that, that's when I say "Print.
Sidney Lumet
#91. Who's calling?"
"Don't insult me like that," the voice says.
I stop. Was I just insulting?
Peter Hedges
#92. As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
David Wright
#93. I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
Tavis Smiley
#94. It feels like I'm trapped in quicksand. The more I struggle, the more I sink. So I stop struggling. I stop trying to free myself; because the more I struggle the scarier it becomes. Then - and only then did panic yield long enough for a numbness to spread and stick to me like a second skin.
Jannet Casas
#95. When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
David Bailey
#96. If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.
Jon Gruden
#97. My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
Jennifer Garner
#99. A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.
Mario Lemieux
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