Quotes of: Pausing Keyword

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

Leonard Mlodinow

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

We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

I keep myself busy with things to do, but every-time i pause, i still think f you.

Courtt

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Gertrude Stein

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

Story Musgrave

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Hector Elizondo

The Deputy: [Tasting the blood from the decapitated turkey mascot] It's blood. The Sherrif: [pause] Son of a bitch!

Grindhouse

[First night in Sandford] Nicholas Angel: I'm taking you to the station. [pause] Nicholas Angel: Where is it?

Hot Fuzz

Perry: He called her a... well, a bad word. [pause] Perry: Cunt.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

[first lines] Guard: [subtitled version] Stand still. Eyes to the floor. [pause] Guard: Walk on.

The Lives of Others

Slevin: The two of you killed everything I ever loved. [pause] Slevin: Fuck you both.

Lucky Number Slevin

Mr. White: Smoke? Mr. Pink: I quit. [pause] Mr. Pink: What, you got one?

Reservoir Dogs

Jack: [In Elevator] Did you hear that? Nick Naylor: [pause] No. Jack: Exactly.

Thank You for Smoking

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Lance Morrow

George McFly: Lou, give me a milk. [dramatic pause] George McFly: Chocolate.

Back to the Future

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

Aditya Ajmera

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty." "It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused.

Sea Glass

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

The Notebook

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Richard Schickel