Stop Quotes

• I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Work
  • Stop

• Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.

  

  John Tavener
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Strong
  • Eyes
  • Brain

• The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war there when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • War
  • Opinion

• If you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting. Go seek therapy.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Control
  • Stop

• I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Truth

• Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

  

  Mark Bittman
  • Time
  • Stop

• Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style.

  

  Duke Johnson
  • Stop
  • Style

• True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Change
  • Loser

• It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Song

• I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust.

  

  Van Dyke Parks
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • Power
  • Age
  • Air

• I just have to stop biting my nails. I've been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it's going to be a lifelong struggle.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Stop
  • Struggle

• Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Time
  • God
  • Control

• You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Fear
  • Yourself
  • Test

• I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Drawing

• I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.

  

  Peter Saul
  • Interesting
  • Stop

• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Moment

• We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Stop
  • Civil Rights
  • Pleases

• I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Done
  • Running
  • Stop

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