Pause Quotes
503 quotes by 393 authors
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We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going…
— Derek Tangye
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In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core…
— Tim McDonald
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically.…
— Deepak Chopra
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself…
— Pico Iyer
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There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
— Ronald Firbank
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and…
— Mary McCarthy
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The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
— Rick Reilly
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A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
— Samuel Johnson
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Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to…
— Darren Criss
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A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.
— Jenna Ushkowitz
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String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck…
— Willie Garson
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I can’t imagine a duller fate than being the best dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something I don’t pause to contemplate…
— Carole Lombard
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I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
— Rosemarie DeWitt
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Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to…
— Joseph Campbell
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And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road.…
— William Kent Krueger
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When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an…
— Claire Pettibone
Who Wrote These Pause Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 503 Pause Quotes, led by these top contributors: