World Stopped Turning

Famous quotes containing the words world, stopped and/or turning:

    There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
    —J.M. (James Matthew)

    I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn’t break my bonds.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)