Quotes About Stopping Time

#1. A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

Ned Vizzini

#2. If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Margaret Atwood

#3. I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

Laurie Simmons

#4. The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

Peter Wollen

#5. Photography is about a single point of a moment. It's like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#6. Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Dave Eggers

#7. Orioles kept making their clear three-note calls, stopping each time just long enough to let the countryside suck in the moist fluting sounds down to the last vibration.

Boris Pasternak

#8. To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

#9. There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.

Lisa Ann Walter

#10. Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human's destination

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Prince

#12. Once her tears started, she always had hard time stopping, to the extent that i wondered how she was able to hold them in the first place.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#13. The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words.

Aspen Matis

#14. The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.

Regina Brett

#15. Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

Mona Kuhn

#16. I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

Chris Pratt

#17. It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.

Thomas Moore

#18. Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.

Merlin Mann

#19. She dragged me across the floor, stopping from time to time only to kick me. I didn't know our cows too could be so inhuman.

Samuel Beckett

#20. Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Henry Ford

#21. Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

M. Stanton Evans

#22. I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry A. Kissinger

#23. When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

Chrissie Hynde

#25. What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

Anthony Warlow

#26. I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

Mark Roberts

#27. I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.

Charles S. Sanford Jr.

#28. It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.

Neale Donald Walsch

#29. The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

Graham Swift

#30. He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side ... and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't realized it already. Kind of obvious. It wasn't like he'd been going to take time out to find his clothing before stopping Liam.

Kelley Armstrong

#31. Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Diane Paulus

#32. In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.

Kendrick Meek

#33. I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

#34. Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

Napoleon Hill

#35. I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

Terry Riley

#36. She had never seen snow before, except in TV shows and movies. It had looked to her like the stars were flaking out of the sky. It had looked like thousands of fireflies in the moonlight; like breathlessness, like time stopping, like the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.

Lauren Oliver

#37. A day out of season, stopping the monotonous count of summer days. Stopping, too, one's own summer routine, so that, looking out on the gray skies, one says not only, 'What time of year is it?' but, 'What time of life am I in? Where am I? What am I doing?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#38. You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

Stephenie Meyer

#39. Go ahead with your life, your plans ... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

Richard L. Evans

#40. Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#41. I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it ...

Margaret Atwood

#42. Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.

Nikki Rowe

#43. It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago.

Jonathan Tropper

#44. Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

John Arlott

#45. What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return
every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

Peter Viereck

#46. For me Wagner is impossible ... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

Robert Schumann

#47. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Eli Broad

#48. Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.

Jim Palmer

#49. People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

K. Martin Beckner