Quotes About Pause

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

Reality can wait.

This is the best thing I've ever eaten." He pauses for a drink, staring at me over the rim of his glass of juice. " It's the provolone," I say, swallowing my last bite. "It's the chef.

Eternity is the stopped heart of Time.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Life happens over coffee

Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.

"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

Knowing that the instrument could produce a sound that echoed all the sadness and hope of humanity gave him pause.

The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.

Whenever you do big stuff in the ring - a big move or a big hit - you have to let that moment breathe. That allows a moment to sink in for the fans so they can reflect on it.

I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.

Henry thought that was a good time to hang up.

Ramona needed a moment to

while—for a couple of minutes—it's actually

Is it raining out?" the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. "No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles." "Oh, yes?" she went on

put an end to is an expression to which one might usefully do just that. Make it 'stop'.

aposiopesis.

When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win! Conversations aren't contests! Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.

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