Quotes About Pause

peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth

He peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points.

He leaned on the church wall and gave his heart a moment to catch itself.

Justine pulled her Jag over to the side of the road and stared out at the landscape. I twirled the dial on her police band radio until the signal was clear. She opened her thermos, passed it over to me. I took a sip. The coffee was black, unsugared. That's the way Justine liked just about everything: straight up, no bullshit.

ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.

She braked at Washington, watched the

Paul Richardson paused in his pacing around

stopped before high

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

I know some people will roll their eyes at this, but it's not like you can totally put academics on pause during March Madness (well, maybe at some schools). At Stanford, you had to handle your business.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

I believe every artiste, at some point, needs to take a step back.

The Apparition paused, and would have spoke... But then a neighbouring chanticleer awoke... —'Tis known how much dead gentlefolks eschew The appalling sound of "Cock-a-doodle-do!"

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

you can't put life on pause and then catch up with it later when you have more energy to give. You have to play it all the way through to the end.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

What should give you pause is that suicides scales with intelligence in the animal kingdom and you might wonder if this is not true of individuals as well as species.

To contemplate the extermination of the human species and the long pause that follows before some other species crops up, it calms you more than anything else.

I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther.

I stop somewhere, waiting for you.

If a typewriter is antiquated, what does that make me?" she asked. There was an awkward pause. As Baez later told me, "As soon as I said it, I realized the answer was so obvious. The question just hung in the air. I was just horrified.