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The lights disappear, The elevator shudders, Stalls, Quits. All in the same nanosecond. All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think, And Travis so close I can't breathe. -- Elana Johnson
Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls. -- Edmund Phelps
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. -- Dorothy Fields
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties. -- Anthony Bourdain
In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion. -- Edmund White
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy. -- Dorothy Fields
I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage. -- Chantal Sutherland
They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine. -- Hugh Miller
When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia. -- Jeff Kinney
Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay. -- Lee Westwood
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse. -- Jane Leavy
My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me. -- Kaley Cuoco
Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old -- Poul Henningsen
When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon. -- T. Jefferson Parker
Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls. -- Brock Yates
Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec. -- Joe Flaherty
People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls. -- Vladimir Korolenko
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. -- Robert Browning
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. -- Dorothy Fields
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove. -- Jojo Moyes
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. -- Bertolt Brecht
Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. -- Jonathan Swift
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner. -- Eleanora Duse
I feel sure that coups d'Ã©tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine -- Peter Weiss
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. -- Dorothea Dix
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year. -- John Updike
Work-family conflicts--the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child--would not be forced upon women with suchsanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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