“The most precious things in speech are pauses”
Ralph Richardson
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
Mark Twain
“Communication does not happen when you speak, happens when you pause. Remember to pause”
A Senthil
“My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.”
Al Pacino
“This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.”
Dorothea Lange
“It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.”
Jack Benny
“When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep”
George Bernard Shaw
