Quotes About Intermission

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.

Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

some twenty boys sat behind wilfully collapsible desks, occupying their brief intermission in various more or less destructive and useless ways.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward.

I eat a light but sustaining dinner before the show: a bunch of greens and some non-gluten quinoa or rice. I'll have a snack at intermission. I'm trying so hard not to have meals after the show because it's so late, but sometimes I just want a big bowl of pasta.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

It felt like a piece of punctuation in a run-on sentence.

The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in accord with whom we are or think we are. Everyone harbours some kind of vanity, and there's an error whose degree we can't determine. We're something that goes on during the show's intermission; sometimes, through certain doors, we catch a glimpse of what may be no more than scenery. The world is one big confusion, like voices in the night.

We are living an entr'acte with orchestral accompaniment.

The pause that refreshes.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

I'm better off when I take a little break from racing now and then.

I think taking a gap after a long-running show is a must.

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.

After 'Furious 6,' that was a natural break for me. It was a good time to step away.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

In the education of the American people, I am Recess.