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Quotes About Interruption

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted
~ Eric Van Lustbader
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.
~ John Rampton
Se interrumpe, sé que está a punto de mentir. Es la peor sensación: cuando tienes que esperar y armarte de valor para la mentira.
~ Gillian Flynn
There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.
~ Graham Greene
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
~ Kenneth Arrow
Someone who butts in when you're talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who butts in, be they child or adult, is most infuriating.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
Irish rock star Bono has said, "Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
~ Shane Claiborne
But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.
~ Shane Claiborne
Lord, use us to heal the broken systems. Equip us with wisdom and foresight. May our lives interrupt injustice with your grace. Amen.
~ Shane Claiborne
Dr Leila Kheirandish-Gozal puts it this way: 'Just imagine, someone says to your child "wake up! wake up! wake up!" five times an hour. That's what happens in sleep apnoea, every time an apnoea happens. Every night a child is not treated, is a very big problem
~ Sharon Moore
While the two females snarled viciously at each other, Ric grabbed a stick from the ground and waved it between Jess and Blayne. "Look! Look! A stick! Who wants it? Who wants it? Go get it!" He threw the stick and Jess and Blayne watched it flip across the forest floor. Once it landed, they looked back at Ric. "Dude," Jess told him, "that was just rude.
~ Shelly Laurenston
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
~ Richard L. Evans
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
~ Georgette Heyer
A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.
~ M.J. Pullen
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
~ Wole Soyinka
To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.
~ Mary Oliver
It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the door. And the thought which I had in hand, or almost in hand, is gone.
~ Mary Oliver
It is the internal force - this intimate interrupter - whose tracks I would follow. the world sheds, in the energetic way of an open and communal place, its many greetings, as a world should. What quarrel can there be with that? But that the self can interrupt the self - and does - is a darker and more curious matter.
~ Mary Oliver
Emily interrupted. Don, she said. would you mind going home? He pulled his soft hat violently down over his forehead. I suppose you think that I'm a cad. I just don't think about you. Good-by, Emily said, and closed the door firmly behind him.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
It's David!" Ellie said, throwing up her arms and breaking Stevie's concentration on Hayes and his orbit. "David, David, David!" As David David David came into the yurt
~ Maureen Johnson
Ring! he shrieked at the vapid instrument.
~ Barry Hannah
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
~ Noel Coward
I didn't get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo's pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.
~ Ernest Cline
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
~ Ernest Hemingway