Quotes About Interruption

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.

Chook's phone went to nine rings before she answered in the gritty rancor of interrupted sleep. But her voice changed when she recognized mine. "Trav! I phoned you last night. Who is that Mrs. Atkinson?

This distinction also helps us to understand why men commonly interrupt a woman when she is talking about a problem. This interruption generally occurs in an intimate relationship when a woman is not looking to solve a problem but instead is talking in order to feel better or closer to her partner.

Sorry to disturb, but Scott Turow is on the phone.

when he started for the fourth, Mary cut him off. In a clear and unwavering voice

Nancy cut him off. "Larry wouldn't let her. We

Some say the present is just a pleasant interruption to the past, but to me it's a window into the future.

Es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, daß gerade Christen und Theologen ihre Arbeit oft für so wichtig und dringlich halten, daß sie sich darin durch nichts unterbrechen lassen wollen. Sie meinen damit einen Dienst zu tun, und verachten dabei den ›krummen und doch geraden Weg‹ Gottes.

For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is a proof of insanity, so insanity diagnosed in a sonata seemed to him as mysterious a thing as the insanity of a dog or a horse, although instances may be observed of these.

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses

If there's one thing that distinguishes the human species, it is a pathological need to stay connected. The fact your people will interrupt sex to answer your communicators is a scandal across the entire Common Confederation.

that was less about the fundamental nature of the visions than the fact Gianni kept interrupting Chen, and she was sick of it.

Arkana bakma, biri aray? kapat?yor olabilir...

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.

M. de Charlus and M. de Sidonia had each of them immediately detected the other's vice, which was in both cases that of soliloquising in society, to the extent of not being able to stand any interruption. Having decided at once that, in the words of a famous sonnet, there was 'no help,' they had made up their minds not to be silent but each to go on talking without any regard to what the other might say.

But we have looked too far ahead, for all this did not happen until after the Verdurins' party which we have interrupted, and we must go back to the point at which we left off.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine of my existence, the unfamiliar place and time, had made their presence indispensable. My habits...for once were missing, and all my faculties came hurrying to take their place.

Soy David, ya me conoces –dijo, y se adelantó. –¡No, no te conozco! –David Stenfäldt, del pueblo... –¡Cierra la boca! –lo interrumpió Natte–. No puedo oír si hay alguien más por ahí. David no tenía ganas de continuar y dio un paso adelante.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.

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