Stop Action

Famous quotes containing the words stop and/or action:

“If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain:”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)