Stopped Quotes

#1. Okay," he said, planting his newly freed hand on the mattress. "I stopped. Now let me tell you what I think. I think you think that if you give in to what I want, and what I suspect you want, I'll make a killer and a whore out of you. You think I'll hurt you if you refuse.

Nenia Campbell

#2. I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

Ridley Scott

#3. arrowed south through thick forest, then into the water before adrenaline stopped beating the fuck out of his heart. Slogging across the narrow inlet in full gear kept the fury building. The

Toni Anderson

#4. If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#5. Ari grunted a greeting. "What took you ... so long?" His breath huffed with the effort.
"I stopped for a snack, and ordered us a couple beers," Janco said. "We should finish him soon. I hate warm beer.

Maria V. Snyder

#6. I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

Ice Cube

#7. If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

Patrick McHenry

#8. I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

Marty Robbins

#9. I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

David Papineau

#10. With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Philip Roth

#11. He had spent hours listening to how the pull of certain people would supposedly make the world stop. Now he knew it was wrong. The word hadn't stopped. The world had just started to churn and breathe and live.

Roshani Chokshi

#12. He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass

Neil Gaiman

#13. I do spend really focused time with my wife, my kids, grandkids, and so when I'm doing something or on a golf course, work has stopped. I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

Mike Duke

#14. Somehow I had stopped worrying about how much we'd hurt each other in the past and started worrying about how much we would hurt without each other in the future.

Rachel Higginson

#15. I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Madeline Miller

#16. Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

David Lynch

#17. Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't like them that much!" I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable.

Alison Rosen

#18. I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

Bjorn Borg

#19. How would your life be different if ... You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day ... You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli

#20. I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

Matt Chandler

#21. I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

Eric Cantona

#22. Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

David Cronenberg

#23. I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.

James Lee Burke

#25. stopped for a traffic

J.M. LeDuc

#26. Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Dwight Longenecker

#27. My God, every time, it never fails. You happen to me all over again. I never stopped loving you, Lay. You were always with me. Everywhere.

T. Torrest

#28. To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Bill Ayers

#29. He had stopped drinking, but the need to be free had been just as great ...

Stephen King

#30. Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

Laozi

#31. The mater, with her scissors outspread to snap the head of a dead something or other, stopped at the sight of Reggie.

Katherine Mansfield

#32. But mostly we're fairly light-hearted because we have to be. People die here, and if we ever stopped and thought carefully about what we do, then we might not do it at all. If

Jodi Taylor

#33. Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.

David Letterman

#34. There is not much difference between angels and demons.
Except that the demons have stopped pretending to be perfect.

Sabrina Benulis

#35. I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped.

Wentworth Miller

#36. I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.

Bob Saget

#37. Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#38. When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

Wanda Koop

#39. Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely stare, in wonder, at the tiny life before them?

Elizabeth C. Bunce

#40. No, seriously,' choked Sam, his eyes streaming. 'You're such a loser, that you've actually stopped losing and have progressed to having just lost. It's over. The game is over. You have lost the game of life. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.

Lili Wilkinson

#41. I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic you never listen to anybody but yourself.

Terri Cheney

#42. I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

Susan Choi

#43. Instead, the act of going back made new memories, and everytime I went I would add another layer on top of her memory, until eventually I'd buried them completely and all of those places stopped being about my past with her and became my present.

Cecelia Ahern

#44. We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

Haruki Murakami

#45. Keep playing, Papa.
Papa stopped.

Markus Zusak

#46. We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

Susanna Hoffs

#47. And at this point, do you think a give a fuck anymore? I looked out for me and only me for years, and then you came along. You made me feel things. And when I laid here after I came back from seeing you beat up and broken because of me, I stopped caring what happens to me.

Emily Snow

#48. The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Boy George

#49. That's exactly the problem. Everyone's convinced that their lives are over just because their hearts stopped beating." "That's usually a pretty good indication, sule," Galladon said dryly.

Brandon Sanderson

#50. He is forbidden to love as a man. Passion must find its own way out. Claws tear the heart. Love is the most merciless of gods. Something so powerful will not be stopped, only turned, often to violence. I can almost understand this man.

Rebecca Ashe

#51. Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?

Patricia Briggs

#52. In the olden days it was easy to make a television work.You plugged an aerial cable into the back, then bashed the top with your fist until, eventually, Hughie Green stopped jumping up and down.

Jeremy Clarkson

#53. The Baby said, 'Wanty go walky'; and the fly stopped with a last rattle and jolt.

E. Nesbit

#54. By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

Lynn Shelton

#55. Where are you going?" Kaylin stopped. "I'm following you." "Which is usually done from behind.

Michelle Sagara

#56. I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

Oprah Winfrey

#57. Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

Jay McInerney

#58. Their pursuers suddenly stopped their efforts, grew quiet. "They gave up!" Mark said, embarrassed at the kidlike excitement in his voice. "Which means they're up to something," Alec replied. "We need to get inside this beast and get her ready to fly. And get that landing pad open.

James Dashner

#59. If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Jessi Colter

#60. Zane rolled his eyes. "I hope your insurance is up to date," he said as they stopped at another door. "Grady doesn't forget people who fuck around with him.

Abigail Roux

#61. I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

Wayne Coyne

#62. Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're dead, Potter."
Harry raised his eyebrows. "Funny," he said, "you'd think I'd have stopped walking around ...

J.K. Rowling

#63. The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

Woodrow Wilson

#64. We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.

Dave Haywood

#65. This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

Walter Reisch

#66. Think she could have told us we were going to fight the NFL?"
"Would that have stopped you?"
"No"
"Me either."
The laughter between the two of us echoed into the night.

Katie McGarry

#67. Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

Deepak Chopra

#68. I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

David Bowie

#69. I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

Oliver Sykes

#70. Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

Pervez Musharraf

#71. Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#72. In the early days, I used to see him all the time. Like, in the street, or I'd see a man in a bar and be
so sure it was him that my heart would start racing. I used to hear his voice in crowds. But that stopped,
a long time ago. Now, I think he might be dead.

Paula Hawkins

#73. Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.'

Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly.

Neil Gaiman

#74. I'm only writing this to show
That I stopped sinning long ago.

Alexander Pushkin

#75. Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#76. People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

Lee Krasner

#77. from inside stopped. "Exactly!

Chanda Hahn

#78. By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.
The water was so cold that it stopped time.

Rachel Sharp

#79. I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Uri Geller

#80. It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Rachel Cohn

#81. She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?"
"Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.

Gena Showalter

#82. If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

Rhys

#83. We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

Jack Kerouac

#84. I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where time stopped. It was amazing and wonderful. But God sent me back, back to my body, back to you. - Lindsey Water

Cyndi Tefft

#85. I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her.

Jonathan Tropper

#86. It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

Boris Johnson

#87. Victor Hugo stopped talking and everybody went to bed.

Adele Hugo

#88. But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?

Patricia Elliott

#89. Phin, history is filled with false realities. If we stopped at what we know to be true, we'll never discover that it's actually false. The Earth would still be flat. -Ethan Cottington, Memoir of a Mermaid Book #1

Adrianna Stepiano

#90. Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped.

M.F. Moonzajer

#91. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Djimon Hounsou

#92. It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

Norman Mailer

#93. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.

Annie Barrows

#94. People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.

Zoe Heller

#95. Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

J.J. Abrams

#96. I'd stopped breathing and everything about that moment was like stumbling into a 3-D movie after living a 2-D life.

Karen Tayleur

#97. I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying.-RVM

R.v.m.

#98. The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

Jill Stein

#99. Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

Cora Carmack

#100. I knew that drinking and doing stand-up was going to make me less of an effective comedian. And I just had a lot invested in wanting to be a really good comedian and so I stopped for that reason.

Greg Fitzsimmons