Quotes About Interruption

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.

How is dear Charlotte?' Celia asked sweetly, then launched into an account of how they'd been having their usual 'Fucking shut up', 'No, you fucking shut up', row a couple of evenings ago, when Yuri had opened the front door of their flat to scream up the stairs, 'Why don't both of you fucking shut up?

You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity.

Madam, you're complicating our night, so before we come in and complicate yours, kindly cork your bullshit bottle and close the gods-damned window!

You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

There was probably not a knight of all the Round Table combination who would not rather have died than been caught carrying such a thing as that on his flagstaff.  And yet there could not be anything more sensible.  It had been my intention to smuggle a couple of sandwiches into my helmet, but I was interrupted in the act, and had to make an excuse and lay them aside, and a dog got them.

If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, I'm glad to see you, and said with your heartier soul, I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time. When

If I ask you something outright, or if I go with my eyes, like, "Go ahead and say something," like with my eyes, then you go ahead and say something, but if I'm in the middle of something...

His face gets between me and my sleep.

He was still tied up with the crash victim, but I was able to interrupt to show him the X ray.

Then I'll answer you now. I didn't ask for this conversation. I didn't go poking around in your business. I'm not ordering or forbidding you to do anything, and I wouldn't even if I could. It was you, you came here and laid everything out, and do you know why? No? So as to get it off your chest. Dump it on someone else. I know that burden, my friend! That's right, don't interrupt!

Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism.

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

From the point of view of individual efficiency, working in large batches makes sense. It also has other benefits: it promotes skill building, makes it easier to hold individual contributors accountable, and, most important, allows experts to work without interruption. At least that's the theory. Unfortunately, reality seldom works out that way.

When I worked as a programmer, that meant eight straight hours of programming without interruption. That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or—heaven forbid—meetings, I felt bad.