It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption -… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to… — Karen Burton Mains Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
“[Loosen] up your life enough to be ready for interruptions. Don't structure your days so rigidly that you lock out God from… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no… — Julia Golding Copy Share Image
If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image