“I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.”
“Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.”
“In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they’ll just edit it out.”
“I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.”
“Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.”
“Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there’s little pause for moral or legal contemplation.”
“I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it’s time to pause and reflect and think about what I’ve seen and done.”
“When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.”
“I’d rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, ‘Hey, wasn’t that bit funny?’”
“I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.”
“The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader’s mind. It has, in fact, the last word.”
“The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.”
“There is much that makes one pause in ‘If This is a Man’, the record of Levi’s 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.”
“The secret of it is to read what you’ve got in front of you. Don’t, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don’t pause. Don’t put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don’t sort of do anything other than read it.”
“Whenever there was a pause on the ‘Hercules’ set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts – ‘Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we’re on our way?’”
“It’s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.”
“We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.”
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”
“What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.”
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
“Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That’s around when pauses really started.”
“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
“No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.”
“For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.”
“I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.”
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
“I didn’t have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too.”
“Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.”
“The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.”
“I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.”
“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.”
“Comedy is all about the pause.”
“Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!”
“Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization’s table weren’t plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.”
“Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.”
“The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us ‘on pause’ in order to document our lives. It is an extension of how we have learned to put our conversations ‘on pause’ when we send or receive a text, an image, an email, a call.”
“There really isn’t a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.”
“I kind of press pause when it’s a derby, and the season doesn’t matter to me anymore; it’s all about the derby.”
“I like the pause that tea allows.”
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