Quotes About Pause

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

It's always tea-time.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she; 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions, when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take pleasure in such discourse?

Today let's talk about the lunch break. It's twelve-thirty. The whole gang breathes

Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly about him, the way that he sat, the way he used this one hand to gesture. It was the decorum primitive people often have that makes them seem repositors of immense wisdom, when in fact all they possess is immense conviction.

An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.

make myself count to ten before I speak to the

My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink or try to focus on anything. Nothing can keep up to it, not the other cars, not my body, not anyone else in the bar. It's a rush, pure exhilaration, and I'm having the time of my life. But instead of driving, I'm in the passenger seat, along for the ride, watching myself race around the track from my barstool.

when a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging.

Hush, self, let me think.

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.