Stopped Quotes
1845 quotes by 1395 authors
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One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my…
— Frank Stallone
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Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.
— Frederick Lenz
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They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt…
— Frederick Lenz
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The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
— Conway Twitty
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I've never stopped learning.
— Mick Taylor
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The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
— Galina Vishnevskaya
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I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good -…
— Muddy Waters
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There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real…
— Jessica Pare
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In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the…
— Frederick Lenz
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I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
— Kenneth Lonergan
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I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do…
— Mike Leigh
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The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
— Leslie Moonves
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I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was…
— Mario Lemieux
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Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed.…
— Randall Wright
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As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl,"…
— Patti LaBelle
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Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when…
— Melody Beattie
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Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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