#topped

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck. ↗

— Susan Smith

#bad #car #did #down #end

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#building #clock #come #communism #concrete

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#back #because #convention #enjoy #generally

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#i #live #myself #stopped #think

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#bleed #boxing #could #down #eight

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#breaking #butter #dawn #i #just

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#carry #drumming #feel #i #just

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. ↗

— Zane Grey

#cloak #dark #folded #gone #had

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.' ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cancer #done #drinking #had #hand

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#earn #full #getting #got #had