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Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses. -- Thom Yorke
Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
The most precious things in speech are pauses. -- Ralph Richardson
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. -- Mary Webb
I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious. -- Josh Hutcherson
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. -- Richard Corliss
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.' -- Cary Fukunaga
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides. -- Artur Schnabel
What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences. -- Rainn Wilson
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. -- Leonard Mlodinow
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
I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!! -- Artur Schnabel
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. -- Mary Leakey
Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster. -- Tony Verna
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. -- Jonathan Sacks
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living. -- Nhat Hanh
I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well. -- Jim Rash
Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go? -- Pico Iyer
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A. -- Jay Roach
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. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. -- Rainn Wilson
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 than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to. -- Fiona Apple
I do pauses, pauses work for me -- Dylan Moran
The most precious things in speech are the pauses. -- Ralph Richardson
Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses. -- Brian K. Vaughan
He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle. -- Paulo Coelho
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. -- Darin Strauss
The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain. -- Henry Martyn
Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak. -- William C. Bryant
Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death! -- George MacDonald
The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses. -- Amit Kalantri
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. -- Aaron Hill
I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses. -- Ryan Hemsworth
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. -- George Sanders
Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth. -- Michael Jackson
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me." -- Cary Fukunaga
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs -- Jerome Stern
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. -- James Robertson
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. -- Artur Schnabel
For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words. -- Roger Lewis
And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young. -- Hans BÃ¸rli
Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Somehow during their aimless but oh-so-significant conversation with its delicious pauses and thrilling undercurrents of emotion, they came to know that they loved each other passionately." -- Betty Smith
We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement. -- Nick Hornby
When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read. -- Nicholas G. Carr
Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it. -- Joseph Heller
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 wheel when it pauses in its turning. -- Natalie Babbitt
No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.No sun pauses before the set, just strike.No rain delays before the fall, just swing. -- Shannon Hale
WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself. -- Barry Long
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 where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. -- George Eliot
There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you. -- John Krasinski
A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man. -- Willa Cather
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar. -- Robert Pinsky
The voice of God whispers in the heart So softly That the soul pauses, Making no noise, And strives for these melodies, Distant, sighing, like faintest breath, And all the being is still to hear. -- Stephen Crane
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 different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. -- Lindley Murray

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