logo

Quotes About Interrupted

It doesn't do to leave one's work, that is why time and nature, and indeed everything that labours slowly and ceaselessly, produces such good results, but we, whose work is constantly being interrupted, never spin the same thread from beginning to end. Before I left Paris I was producing the work of M. Delacroix, as he was a fortnight ago, now I am about to being the work of the present M. Delacroix (Wednesday 12 May 1852).
~ Eugene Delacroix
Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?" "Well I would if you'd let me finish," he grumbled.
~ Maya Banks
If there is anything else you desire, Your—" "I desire"—the king interrupted in a level voice—"never again to see your living face.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.
~ Andre Aciman
Continue with what?" Myron interrupted. Rule twenty-six of lawyering: Never let the interrogator—cop or fellow attorney—get a rhythm. "You asked her when she last saw her father. She told you.
~ Harlan Coben
Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant's was interrupted, for he was a selfish dog who hated any break in his habits. His departure seemed the last straw
~ Stella Gibbons
Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant's was interrupted, for he was a selfish dog who hated any break in his habits.
~ Stella Gibbons
I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by a repulsive clew, a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs. Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?
~ Muriel Rukeyser
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
~ Susanna Kaysen
The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short bristled type that suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog.
~ Terry Pratchett
asked Carrie, surprised at her experience. Lots of them, said the girl; haven't you? This is my first experience. Oh, is it? I thought I saw you the time they ran 'The Queen's Mate' here. No, said Carrie, shaking her head; not me. This conversation was interrupted by the blare of the orchestra and the sputtering of the calcium lights in the wings as the line was called to form for a new entrance. No further opportunity for conversation occurred, but the next evening
~ Theodore Dreiser
I turned to discover the faint smile of the bookseller's niece. Her voice was pure crystal, transparent and so fragile I feared that her words would break if I interrupted them.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
preoccupied by work." I start to apologize, but she cuts me off.
~ Gene Kim
What Avrakotos says he found particularly distasteful about the British spies were "the fucking teas. Can you believe it, they interrupted meetings every day at three-thirty or four for tea and cookies.
~ George Crile
Did you set a blood ward around us, so you could scream at me uninterrupted?" "YES!
~ Ilona Andrews
The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
Listen," Kate interrupted. "I am going to Italy to study Shakespeare , not to fall in love." The cell phone thrummed with silent disappointment. "In fact," she went on, "I consider myself lucky to have dated Jerome—" "Because you found the state of complete boredom restful?" Annie murmured.
~ Suzanne Harper
I want to find the murderer too. I don't like having my journeys interrupted by chloroform.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Buster admired the skill, loved any action that seemed to be purely muscle memory, disconnected from the brain, which was something he could hardly fathom. His brain always interrupted the actions of his body, interjecting questions and concerns.
~ Kevin Wilson
As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted," Tyrion began, "there is a serious flaw in Littlefinger's fable. Whatever you may believe of me, Lady Stark, I promise you this—I never bet against my family.
~ George R.R. Martin
Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue in dream and which we all complete within ourselves!
~ Georges Rodenbach
Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.
~ GERALD ASHER
I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?
~ Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
~ Paul Watzlawick