Stopper Quotes

#1. Is this Dornish wine?" Tyrion asked him once, as he pulled a stopper from a skin. "It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.

George R R Martin

#2. I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

J.K. Rowling

#3. One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't "win," you won't change anyone's mind, you won't change any votes, you won't make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won't feel any better.

Carolyn Hax

#4. I'm not denying there's got to be a notion of right to get business done, but by God, any particular notion at any particular time will sooner or later get to be just like a stopper put tight in a bottle of water and thrown in a hot stove the way we kids used to do at school to hear the bang. The

Robert Penn Warren

#5. An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper."

John Caples

#6. For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

Carolyn Porco

#7. Not following up with your prospects is the same as filling up your bathtub without first putting the stopper in the drain.

Michelle Moore

#8. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.

Richard J. Foster

#9. A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.

Seth Shostak

#10. Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurses' Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.

Robert Graves

#11. When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

Rachel Kushner

#12. I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-

Rachel Caine

#13. The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#14. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Julia Cameron

#15. God is unchangeable changer, unadjustable adjuster, unmoveable mover, unpredictable predictor, unstoppable stopper, uninvisible visible, and wonderful wonder

Osunsakin Adewale

#16. Palindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen.

Demetri Martin

#17. I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#18. I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

Alan Jay Lerner

#19. I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.

J.K. Rowling

#20. We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Sam Harris

#21. No, my lord. I merely thought it unwise for you to visit the Duke of Massingale and request his granddaughter's hand in marriage while intoxicated." Reeves replaced the stopper on the decanter and carried it back to the sideboard. "His Lordship would not appreciate such a display.

Karen Hawkins

#22. The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.

M.J. McGuire

#23. The black hardrubber bathtub stopper at the Parker house.

Robert Lowell

#24. I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible,
But when I swing my swords they all choppable,
I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper,
Child educator, plus head amputator.

GZA

#25. At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Marcel Proust

#26. I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

Jeff Koons

#27. Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

Mason Cooley

#28. LOVE is
what gives joy
to giving joy.

Rumi

#29. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

#30. The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

G.K. Chesterton

#31. Were Gabriel and I going to fall in love? Be together forever? Live our lives happily as soul mates? Who the hell knew something like that? I
sure didn't. I can't see the future.
All I knew was that I would love finding out.

Kim Harrington