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Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime. -- Pema Chodron
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting. -- Jack Osbourne
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. -- Dana Spiotta
If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake? -- Casey Neistat
Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. -- Harper Lee
I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor. -- Eddie Marsan
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. -- Wendell Berry
Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting. -- Robin Marantz Henig
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event. -- Regina Brett
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society. -- James Gleick
I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing. -- Steve Huffman
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting. -- Winston Churchill
Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting. -- Michael Curtiz
For me to praise is interrupting praise. -- Rumi
Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love. -- Paulo Coelho
listen without interrupting speak honestly even it is strong truth. -- lity munshi
The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other. -- Paula Fox
There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting. -- Mark Twain
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. -- Will Rogers
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. -- Diane Ackerman
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. -- Robert Breault
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't. -- Seth Godin
You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said"I have. But not an interrupting one. -- John Flanagan
You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one. -- John Flanagan
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze. -- Lauren F. Winner
Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas. -- Gary Chapman
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. -- Dan Barker
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. -- China Mieville
If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes. -- Rick Moody
The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry. -- Ernest Hemingway
Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two. -- Jim Butcher
Now lemme get this straight," she said in a throaty, nasal voice. "You put the lime in the cocanut and drink 'em both up--whoa, long faces. What am I interrupting? -- Lauren Kate
Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience. -- David Jeremiah
Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums. -- Julie Schumacher
Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other. -- Paul Ryan
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner. -- Fran Lebowitz
Oh my God. What in"?" I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. "Mom," Isabel snapped, interrupting. "Do you mind not staring? It's totally perv. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes. -- John le Carre
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. -- John le Carre

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