Quotes About Pause

Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa. "I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

Well," said Clary, after a judicious pause, "I guess you wouldn't have taken advantage of her when she's so grief-stricken and all." Simon snorted. "If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

Cecy, what are you doing here?" She took a step forward, then paused on the threshold, glancing down at her bare feet. "I could ask of you the same." "I like to talk to the horses at night. They make good company. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

Hmm?" She stopped and looked back.

I couldn't just keep walking through some crap like this, like it never happened. Like everything was fine. Every now and then you need to call a time-out. Get your breath back.

the divisions of time had gone on vacation, leaving just a crush of constant moments.

I could speak by then, but neither of us thought it my best trick. Very often my exchanges with Ceno went something like: Sing me a song, Elefsis. The temperature in the kitchen is 21.5 degrees Celsius and the stock of rice is low. (Long pause.) Ee-eye-ee-eye-oh.

Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, 'I didn't pay him to say that.'

In this way, Harvard Law School gives me a big gift: I worry less about hostile responses. Ultimately, they educate an audience. As the great Flo Kennedy will suggest later when we begin to speak together, "Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, 'I didn't pay him to say that.'

There's something about cold mornings and hot coffee that brings Time to a crawl, until our mugs are empty, then it lightning-bolts off into the waiting day.

Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.

Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.

It wouldn't last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment of the respite.

Before we get too wrapped around the axle

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear