Referee Stopped Contest

Famous quotes containing the words stopped and/or contest:

    “And we passed to the end of a vista,
    But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
    By the door of a legended tomb;
    And I said—” What is written, sweet sister,
    On the door of this legended tomb?”
    She replied—”Ulalume—Ulalume!—
    ‘Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)