The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
But the thing that . . . that I touched . . . " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.
I didn't even realize how much reading meant to me until I stopped, and my world just fell apart.
Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?
It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.
One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.
I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.