#stop

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#annoying #attention #demanding #doing #else

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#i #i can #me #people #smoking

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. ↗

— Phil Collins

#basis #daily #daily basis #father #full-time

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#aiming #being #by the time #fifty #i

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ↗

— Confucius

#go #how #long #matter #slowly

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent. ↗

— John Conyers

#adding #build #clarify #confidence #country

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad. ↗

— Rick Danko

#around #just #kind #performing #put

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear. ↗

— Wendy Cope

#appear #approaches #bloody #buses #like

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#firm #house #i #local #outside

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#children #death #find #going #grow