Stop Time Quotes

26 quotes by 26 authors

The purpose of art is to stop time. — Bob Dylan
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is… — David Hyde Pierce
Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time, — Questlove
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Morning tide makes a great companion when you donâ€™t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the… — Anna Banks
I suspect it is for oneâ€™s self-interest that one looks at oneâ€™s surroundings and oneâ€™s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its… — Phil Anselmo
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I… — Dave Eggers
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he… — Mark Helprin
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down. — Kim Edwards
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could… — Alice Sebold
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and… — Sara Zarr
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… — Iain Banks
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not… — Anne Michaels
The Way It Is Thereâ€™s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesnâ€™t change. People wonder about what you are… — William Stafford
We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it? — Christine Feehan
I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us... — Mary Oliver

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