Pauses Quotes

86 quotes by 78 authors

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather… — Fiona Apple
Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving… — Janet Morris
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. — Artur Schnabel
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't… — David Hockney
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. — George Sanders
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris… — Natalie Babbitt
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the… — Lindley Murray
The most precious things in speech are the pauses. — Ralph Richardson
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain… — George Eliot
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock… — Russell Baker
He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle. — Paulo Coelho
Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . â€â€”Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point… — Erykah Badu
I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my… — Dave Winfield
Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by… — Natalie
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show.… — Rainn Wilson
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary… — Eric G. Wilson

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