Quotes About Pauses

He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides!

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

French listening posts learned to recognize a radio operator's fist. Once encrypted, a message is sent in Morse code, as a series of dots and dashes, and each operator can be identified by his pauses, the speed of transmission, and the relative lengths of dots and dashes. A fist is the equivalent of a recognizable style of handwriting.

Her blood-curdling snoring, with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise.

Las mejores conversaciones son aquellas donde no importa lo que se dice, sino el trenzado gutural de la voz, el bordado de las palabras, la calidad de las pausas, la filigrana de las dudas.

Es un maestro de las largas pausas. Sabe que sólo los tímidos las temen y que se precipitan, cuando no saben qué contestar, en frases apuradas que les ridiculizan

I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses.

My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something.

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these very gatherings. I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. Oh yes, I'm afraid so. No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham!

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Typically, preachers in our work-oriented society teach that God rested to provide humanity with a precedent for rest, an example for our good. Seldom have I heard mention of the other meaning for rest, the one used in musical notation. This meaning refers to cessation rather than recovery from weariness. Our enjoyment of music owes much to these brief pauses.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.