Stalling For Time Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Arkin

#3. I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

Pete Hamill

#4. what's the point of a promise anyway? How can we expect people to stick to their word about anything when the world around us is so arbitrary, unreliable, and senseless?

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#5. I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

Jessica Pare

#6. Little victories, they're the ones that counts.

Jessi Kirby

#7. Hey, it's not like I was saving myself for the day you had a body again, so don't get excited."
"Too late." He curved his fingers around my jaw and kissed me, hard enough to turn my limbs to liquid fire.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#8. You can't get saved if you don't play.

Bill Maher

#9. As Sun cofounder Bill Joy noted, no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.

Eric Schmidt

#10. [Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions ...

Brian D. McLaren

#11. My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.

Devin Dygert

#12. The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

Carroll Bryant

#13. History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Jill Lepore

#14. The amount of space per employee shrank from 500 square feet in the 1970s to 200 square feet in 2010, according to Peter Miscovich, a managing director at the real estate brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

Susan Cain