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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. -- Jean Paul
My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall. -- Petra Stunt
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If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit. -- Paul Waner
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. -- Marlo Thomas
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. -- John Harvey Kellogg
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle. -- Karl Malone
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. -- Confucius
I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me. -- Jenny Holzer
My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction. -- Tig Notaro
In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen. -- Shay Mitchell
I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising. -- Lynne Truss
The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango. -- Hanya Yanagihara
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture. -- Jane Smiley
You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything. -- Bernhard Goetz
They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous. -- Robert Loomis
But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. -- Dave Eggers
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. -- Helen Reddy
For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me. -- James Norton
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. -- Judith Wright
I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on. -- Saffron Aldridge
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall. -- Scott Turow
I was at a banquet, and I went into the ladies' room, and I'm in the stall doing my business, and a piece of paper and pen came from outside the door, and she says, 'Ms. Wagner, would you please sign this for me?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me?' -- Lindsay Wagner
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings. -- A. J. Liebling
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England. -- M.I.A.
It's impossible to stall a Lizzie. -- Elizabeth Wein
They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall. -- Winston Churchill
The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough. -- Max Weiss
Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself. -- Tina Fey
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. -- Umberto Eco
Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. -- Donald Hall
In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but okay to go the bathroom in a handicapped stall? -- Jerry Seinfeld
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever. -- Amelie Nothomb
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried. -- Robert Townsend
Modi winning or not winning is not important. I can go home tomorrow & open a tea stall but the nation must not suffer. -- Narendra Modi
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. -- Narendra Modi
There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall. -- Yitzhak Rabin
I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit. -- Deborah Ann Woll
Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall. -- Jennifer Weiner
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. -- Arthur Symons
When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . . -- Nelly Sachs
Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall. -- Alice-Leone Moats
...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety. -- Joan Anderson
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out! -- Ernest K. Gann
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. -- Augustus William Hare
The only guys I like watching these days are Roger Gracie, Marcelo Garcia, Kron and a few others. Those guys finish and go for submissions. They don't hold the sleeves and stall for ten minutes. -- Relson Gracie
Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road, you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too. -- Mark Mobius
The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall. -- Nicholas Negroponte

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