“The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he's laughed and said his say,He shows, as he removes the mask,A face that's anything but gay.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
Benjamin Franklin
“We've had some slow starts, but we were very ready to play tonight. Wade pitched it well, we played good defense, and we hit the ball. I was proud.”
Chris Cauble
“When you're playing a team like that indoors, it's a little hard to stop the momentum or to slow them down.”
Bill Potoczny
“Nothing discovered yet has been shown to stop or slow down aging.”
Robert Butler
“The (Fed) may slow the pace of easing but they cannot stop yet.”
Steven Wood
“(Fargo South) hasn't been even slowed down yet, much less stopped. They're putting up bushels of points, so we need to go out and clearly play our best defensive football game of the year.”
Mike Berg
