#stopping

She imagined she could pull Time like taffy, stretching it longer and longer between her hands until the finest point had been reached, the point just before breaking, and she could live there. A point at the center of time with no going forward, no going back. Clasped in this way, without speaking, walking into no discernible ending, she could almost believe they tread on time. ↗

— Sarah Blake

#stopping-time #ww-ii #imagination

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#get #martyred #poetry #slaves #stopping

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#best #day #end #end of the day #human

I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#acting class #always #class #clear #eat

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#i #retiring #stop #stopped #stopping

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. ↗

— Julian Assange

#form #leaks #new #new form #stopping

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. ↗

— William Devane

#built #business #even #process #slowing

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#crime #effective #fighting #most #occurs

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired. ↗

— Terry Riley

#get #hours #i #just #long

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. ↗

— Will Rogers

#enter #i #last #nation #paid