Quotes About Pause

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby ' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Would you like me to stop talking? Because I can. I have to concentrate, but it's possible

It's impossible. It's madness." There was a long pause. "Or is it?" the old man said.

We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.

I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.

She gazes up at the sky through the window. 'Come to think of it, wouldn't it be brilliant if we could stop time when we felt like it, catch up on stuff and then slip back into it?

Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.

You can learn a lot if you stop spinning and start listening.

She paused and added seriously, 'Isn't it funny the way we're talking, just as though we've known each other for years and years.' He said easily, 'Oh, I'm a great believer in instant friendship.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

Horrors," said Elphaba. It was her first word, and it was greeted with silence. Even the moon, a lambent bowl among the trees, seemed to pause.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

Another pause. Cameras pirouetted. Myron looked around. All the lenses were aiming down from up high, glaring at him like hostile space aliens or lunchroom monitors.

I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

The end of a tournament is a good time to pause.

Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.