Quotes About Interruption

Rachel opened her mouth to respond, but the head cut her off.

Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love, " Lindsay says."Very funny,

Next!" The taller of the guys at the door called. Saved by the yell.

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.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.

Modern-day offices have become interruption factories. Merely walking in the door makes you a target for anyone else's conversation, question, or irritation. When you're on the inside, you're a resource who can be polled, interrogated, or pulled into a meeting. And another meeting about that other meeting. How can you expect anyone to get work done in an environment like that?

It's not uncommon for people to pick up their phones dozens of times a day when some push notification makes it buzz, because WHAT IF IT WAS SOMETHING SUPER IMPORTANT! (It just about never is.)

But the thing is, there's not more work to be done all of a sudden. The problem is that there's hardly any uninterrupted, dedicated time to do it.

That's because offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there.

Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward the altar. The hand of La had paused at the first noise of interruption. When she saw who the author of it was she went white. She had never been able to fathom the secret of the strange white man's escape from the dungeon in which she had locked him.

He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.

The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption becomes further object of contemplation, and that this rhythm of delusion and revelation feels as if it's essential to the nature of consciousness considering itself.

The minute you start intruding too far, you take the drive out of the man.

They were about to continue a journey that had really started long ago. A journey that had been strangely interrupted, that even now someone was trying to prevent.

I hate to interrupt such a touching scene but those hellhounds are not going to wait for you two to play kissey face. So, unless you intend to nail a chunk of roast beef to my butt and have me run around as a distraction, I would suggest we prepare for battle." Pg. 113-114

'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.