Quotes About Stalling

#1. Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger. As

Jill Mansell

#2. The trick in that town was getting through a night at all without stalling in the sludge of your own thoughts.

Mary Karr

#3. In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

Pete Townshend

#4. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling.

Danielle Ellison

#5. Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Stephen Fry

#6. The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Donald Barthelme

#7. The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth.

Nina Easton

#8. I kept picturing the car stalling, zombies breaking through the window; Misty screaming as they dragged her out before I could get it re-started. With that happy thought, I signaled Misty to open the door.

M.J. Ware

#9. Quit stalling with the good bits!

Jennifer DeLucy

#10. You wouldn't. You're an aberration," he said. "How do I know you won't kill us all anyway?" I said. "You're the one I need to feed to the fire," he said. "Drop the gun and you can save this girl." "Not terribly convincing," I said, stalling for time, hoping for that time to bring something.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. All serious travelers arrive at this doubting, why-bother juncture, stalling on the road, sometime or other.

Paul Theroux

#12. Stop stalling and spill the beans. What's up?"

Alexi tossed down her fork and leaned in close so no one else could possibly hear. "What's not up? We're like rabbits on Viagra.

Jennifer Saints

#13. That window is closing ... Now, the clock is ticking ... We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process ... We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

Barack Obama

#14. The whole weekend turned out to be one giant round of excruciating foreplay, and if he doesn't stop stalling and give me some relief pretty damn pronto, there's going to be a girl-parts rebellion the likes of which he's never seen. I'm wound tighter than Jane Fonda's latest facelift, goddammit.

Leisa Rayven

#15. I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Mark Kozelek

#16. Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...

Dave Barry

#17. Anything less than such proactivity is a cheap imitation of the life you were meant to live. It's stalling.

Jeff Goins

#18. Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.)

Natalie Goldberg

#19. I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

Julie Burchill

#20. The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.

Henry A. Kissinger

#21. Ten times as much polishing is definitely not ten times as good. Whether you're polishing a piece of furniture or an idea, the benefits diminish quickly. The polishing turns into stalling.

Seth Godin

#22. For one thing, everyone would insist that assumptions be stated explicitly and tested rigorously not as a stalling tactic or a form of make-work but out of a genuine desire to discover the truth that underlies every project's vision.

Eric Ries

#23. Come on, Kitten, jump. Or I'll throw you off." "You throw me off this bridge, Bones, and you'll have a lot of celibacy in your future!" His lips curled in a way that said he wasn't worried. "Only means I'd have to work harder to change your mind, and you know how I love my work. Now quit stalling.

Jeaniene Frost

#24. Oh, hey," I said, "This is Roger, my new partner. Roger, this is Jacob, my, uh ... " God, could there be a worse word than "boyfriend?" It made us sound like Barbie and Ken. Or Ken and Ken. Or Ken and G.I. Joe. I told my mind to stop stalling and think of a way to say it. "My partner ... at home

Jordan Castillo Price

#25. One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Carlos Fuentes

#26. Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

Brian Spellman

#27. I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

Alicia Sacramone

#28. Men can't bear to see women cry.

Mona Singh

#29. The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#30. Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.

Omar Suleiman

#31. If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus.

Dave Jacobs

#32. In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have - the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

Jonathan Stalling

#33. The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

Gracie Allen

#34. Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Shane Snow

#35. Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

Ray Liotta

#36. Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

Laura Schlessinger

#37. I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

Bertrand Russell

#38. I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.

Michael Angelakos

#39. There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.
'Did he bite you?' said Father.
'No,' said Frances.
'Did he scratch you?' said Mother.
'No,' said Frances.
'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.

Russell Hoban

#40. Wait now or wait, wait later.

Brian Spellman

#41. People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

Major Owens

#42. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Pat Metheny

#43. The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

Pope Gregory I

#44. She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.

Gloria Steinem