Pause Quotes

503 quotes by 393 authors

This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, arent you? The girl who was in my… — Maggie Stiefvater
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, itâ€™s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.… — Shakti Gawain
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The… — Muriel Barbery
I donâ€™t know what I saw. It couldâ€™ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.â€ â€œYouâ€™ve never sniffed glue!â€ â€œIâ€™ve smelled glue,â€ Jamie… — Sarah Rees Brennan
So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright.… — Lord Byron
...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's… — Lisa McMann
So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through… — Catherine Marshall
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and… — Anita Shreve
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dreamâ€”For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled… — William Shakespeare
Iâ€™ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being… — Tom Waits
There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance. Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, â€œBooga-wooga!â€ At least Eddie laughed. Adrian… — J R Ward
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know… — Norton Juster
I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but… — A. J. Jacobs
It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take… — Lauren Oliver
After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly.… — Christopher Paolini
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again. — Jon McGregor
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. — Lyn Hejinian
Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling… — Elizabeth Scott

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