stop quotes

StopThe World, I Want to Get Off.

-Anonymous
  From the musical by Leslie Bricusse and  Anthony Newley.

If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.

-Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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
  Serious Concerns,'Bloody Men', stanza1.

Let's find out what everyone is doing And then stop everyone from doing it.

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  'Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something'.

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci.

-John Keats
  'Sleep and Poetry', l.85^9.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

- BillieJean ne  e Moffitt King
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

All writing is a disease.You can't stop it.

-William Carlos Williams
Quoted in Newsweek,7 Jan1957.