Quotes About Interruption

As amusing as it was to see him lovestruck, we had to stay on track. I snapped my fingers in front of Marcus's face. "Focus," I said.

It was no wonder my love life was so messed up when the most profound and intimate moments were always being interrupted by dire situations

answered his telephone himself if he happened to be at hand when it signalled because each call offered good odds that he would be justified in being gratifyingly rude to some stranger for daring to invade his privacy without cause—"cause" by Harshaw's definition, not by the stranger's.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Nix, I know you're faking the static. She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. Why? It seamed less rude than the alternative. What's that? Click.

The Archer always keeps an arrow in her quiver for you; interrupt my shot again, and I will give it to you directly.

Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to what's coming next. That's how it works in real life too.

Thanks. But you're never an interruption, you got that? Now quit being considerate. It's weird, and it makes me want to laugh nervously and run away." "You are an odd woman." "Yep," she said.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.

No idea who that is," Sean said. "Some kind of pervert, looks like," Glory said. She ripped Tiger's shirts out of the man's hands. "Stealing Shifter clothes. What were you going to do next, break in and steal my bras?" "Glory," Andrea said to her aunt in calm tones like still water. "Doesn't matter," Glory said, showing her teeth in a smile. "I don't wear any.

Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes, you need them to break the loop.

There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.

Shut up, idiot. I'm counting bongs.

We interrupt this program for breaking news: Has anyone seen this nobody?

Monsieur," said Madame des Aubels, "go away, I beg you." But the Angel hearkened not, and continued: "Saint Augustine, in his True Religion, Chapter XIII; Saint Gregory, in his Morals, Chapter XXIV; Isidore——" "Monsieur, let me get my things on; I am in a hurry." "In his treatise on The Greatest Good, Book I, Chapter XII; Bede on Job——" "Oh, please, Monsieur ...

I knew there was something holding me here. It wasn't paprikash. Or nostalgia for my meager childhood... ...Somewhere in me a nearly voiceless child was asking to know the rest of the story that had been interrupted.

I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.

I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

As game designers, we often assume people are playing from start to finish, and they're never going to walk away from it. But people are doing that.

The owner of one club once interrupted my set to inform me that my taxi had arrived. I don't think he meant it to sound as cutting as it did.

Shutting yourself in the wardrobe until the window cleaner has finished and left.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

But really, why would one bother to imitate anything so vulnerable and unreliable, or with such built-in obsolescence: a central processing unit that could be utterly destroyed because some ancillary mechanical part – the heart, say, or the liver – suffered a temporary interruption? It was like losing a Cray supercomputer and all of its memory files because a plug needed changing.