#stopped

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#ear #find #give #i #i do

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agents #already #could #double #even

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#army #called #continued #into #just

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#does #goal #life #long life #only

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. ↗

— George Best

#drinking #i #only #stopped #while

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#am #any #ask #dear #does

You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#dressing #flashy #glitzy #good #i

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really. ↗

— Julian Clary

#day #door #gay #i #into

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#i #lessons #like #long #long time

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #being #contributed #everything #full