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Quotes About Interruption

You'd be surprised at the things you can discover by barging into someone's bedchamber unannounced.
~ Karen Hawkins
Vidas comunes que se ven tan sólo interrumpidas por la dicha o tragedia.
~ Karen Ranney
Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.
~ Karin Gillespie
John picked up a glass vase w/ flowers, dropping them on the floor). I'm going to call the police. (Aunt Lydia) Better duck first. (John)
~ Karin Slaughter
Uh . . ." At that moment there was a knock on the door. Grateful for the interruption, Leal opened it to find Seana and Brun Mafin lounging outside. "Ready?" asked Seana. "I hope so, otherwise we'll be late.
~ Karl Schroeder
Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
~ Kate Atkinson
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
~ Robert Breault
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
~ Austin O'Malley
Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.
~ Frank Zindler
Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
~ Ken Robinson
The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.
~ Bill Toomey
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~ Leonard Bernstein
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
~ Amor Towles
My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?
~ Karen Scalf Linamen
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
~ Stevie Smith
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese proverb
Every hospital is, as I've noted, an interruption machine—a flood of people come to poke you and prod you and ask you questions.
~ Will Schwalbe
A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
~ David Brooks
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Decide that you don't mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.
~ Joyce Meyer
Oh my god will you shut the front door already!
~ Alex Riley
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.
~ Jean Paul