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Quotes About Interruption

Popped to the loo.
~ Ian Rankin
God is often silent when we prefer that he speak and he interrupts us when we prefer that he stay silent. His ways are not our ways. To live with the sacred God of creation means that we conduct our lives with a God who does not explain himself to us. It means that we worship a God who is often mysterious - too mysterious to fit our formulas for better living. It means that God is not our best friend our secret lover or our good-luck charm. He is God.
~ Unknown
If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, "Sorry, gotta go!
~ Cynthia Lord
and what is more annoying than to be chatted to when you are absorbed in a book?
~ D.E. Stevenson
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
~ Horatio Nelson
don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to
~ Unknown
I'm smiling, Sherlock, because I know exactly what's bothering my wife!" "Ah!" I reply. "So—" "Wait, wait. I'm getting to the best part," he interrupts. "So, like I said, I really do know what's wrong, but I'm not that interested in hearing another complaint. So this time, instead of asking, I decide I'm going to—
~ Lori Gottlieb
She's drunk dialing contractors " Chloe said to Tara. "Someone should stop her.
~ Jill Shalvis
He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.
~ Jim Butcher
From 2,272 text messages a month in 2008, American teenagers (ages 13–17) ballooned to 3,339 messages a month in 2010, an average of six per waking hour. Simply put, students in one of the most formative periods of their intellectual and emotional lives are interrupted 118 times a day for messages, totaling 90 minutes.
~ Jim Trelease
Had she not interrupted, EveLynn would have detailed every blasted piece of fabric in her possession. Unfortunately, she gets stuck on a track that derails her and won't allow her to roll to a halt.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
~ Virginia Woolf
Andrè fu il primo a partire, mentre parlava, a metà di una frase, come si spegne una candela.
~ Primo Levi
You always thought you knew where you were headed. But now your life's been interrupted, and these personal goals, hopes, and trajectories are being asked to take a backseat to what God uniquely has in mind for you.
~ Priscilla Shirer
I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, chin nestled in my hands, to see what God is going to do. With my children. With my husband. With me—a regular, everyday woman choosing to surrender to a life interrupted.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Oh, Claire, he said. You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering. Are you saying that you - Doughnuts! Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.
~ Rachel Caine
Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane
~ Rachel Caine
What happened, she says! Aye, what indeed? I tell ye to stay all snug below wi' Marsali, and next thing I ken, ye've dropped out of the sky and landed at my feet, sopping wi' blood!
~ Diana Gabaldon
inquisidor le interrumpió y le ofreció la mano, lacia, para que hiciera la pertinente genuflexión.
~ Unknown
People are always ruining things for you.
~ J. D. Salinger
New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.
~ Damon Runyon
Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams
~ Dan Davin
Excuse me," said Andrea, raising her hand to ruin everybody's fun like always.
~ Dan Gutman
In one typical study, researchers found that physicians interrupt the majority of patients in the first eighteen seconds the patient speaks during an appointment, which often prevents the patient from describing what brought her to the office in the first place.
~ Daniel H. Pink