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Quotes About Pause

I needed a break from the breakneck speed of daily soaps.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
A lot of times life is spinning so fast around you that you kind of think it's out of control and that's when you need to slow down a little bit and take a break.
~ Zdeno Chara
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
~ Orville Dewey
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Napravila bih pauzu svaki put kada bi me neka ideja pogodila svojom istinitoscu, ili kad bi me neka recenica gusila mirnom ostrinom. Priznajem: pucala sam od smeha, kao sto sam I poskakivala od sramezljivosti.
~ Nedjma
Contrary to implicit tenets of the green movement, not all that is natural is beautiful, and not all that is beautiful is natural. Maybe that's why the world needs poets. Not to interpret what is plain and obvious, but to help us take pause and reflect on the beauty of people, places, and ideas—things we might otherwise take for granted. Simple beauty that emanates from simple truths.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
dando un golpe fuerte en la puerta. Todos se quedan un momento
~ Neus Sans
And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
~ Phil Lesh
I wasn't doing the comedy thing at all for six months. And it was just eating at my soul.
~ Josh Blue
Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.
~ Jose Andres
Between Princeton and Elizabethtown they stopped twice for Tucker to avail himself of gas station facilities, the food having slid through his bowels like Sherman through Georgia.
~ Chris Offutt
He paused, then, on a whim, arranged the unconscious Falleen in an undignified postion
~ Christie Golden
when you don't know what to do, stand still.
~ Christine Feehan
Reflect before you think.
~ Umberto Eco
Train yourself to say what you want to say and then stop.
~ Valerie E Hess
If nothing else, this pause has given me that: a lens through which to view my previous life. It's not forgiveness. Not even near that yet, but it is … acceptance, and that's better than nothing.
~ Kristin Hannah
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
~ L'Wren Scott
It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk. - Ash Redfern
~ L.J. Smith
It might be better if we didn't see each other for a while.
~ L.J. Smith
There's a long pause. But it's not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I'm the treasure from the high shelf that someone's just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don't mind being looked at like this. I don't mind it at all.
~ Laini Taylor
Sudarminto paused. He thought about what he should say if Amba had indeed read the whole Book of Centhini and, worse, the parts she was not supposed to.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
~ lamott anne iii
Ming assumes Brenda has taken Katherine's point, but it turns out she's only pausing for dramatic effect. She lowers her voice. "You don't believe he's innocent," she says. "That's why you think he shouldn't speak on his own behalf." For a moment, Katherine looks startled. She reddens, as if caught. She recovers herself. "This is about how to win. This isn't about who can stand by her man .
~ Lan Samantha Chang
I don't know who Azazel is," he said. "Isn't he the cat from The Smurfs?" He cast about , but Isabelle just looked up and rolled her eyes at him. "Clary?" he thought Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?" "Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from The Smurfs?" There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurf questions.
~ Cassandra Clare