Quotes About Pause

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

Sighing, he paused a moment as if to take in my essence or to gather his wits. As he had no wits to gather, it must have been my essence giving him pause.

If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment.

A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.

In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate what's beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to what's good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.

Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.

The aposiopesis was icy.

O, in this single hour I live, All of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still and stop the sun!

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

Human beings are like some plants. If we pause a few seconds in our journey, we begin setting down roots, tendrils that entangle other people as we ourselves are entangled.

we begin to stop in order simply to begin again.

One. Two. Three. Blink.

Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.

I, ah … I suppose it's for the best. That you … aren't a boy, I mean. There was another, longer awkward pause. I … I'm glad you aren't a boy. Despite the danger, the horror, the utterly terrible ridiculousness of the situation, Clarice felt like laughing. Thank you, she said gravely. I'm glad I'm not a boy, too.

Nimue paused a long time. I think she sensed the truth of Britain before any of us, before even Merlin and certainly long before Arthur

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.