(139 quotes found)
“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
“The most precious things in speech are pauses”
Ralph Richardson
“It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.”
Jack Benny
“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
“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
“With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,And third-rate conversation without one single pause:Just like a young coupleBetween the wars.”
William Plomer
“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
“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”
Clarence Day
“We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
Lee Iacocca
“The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it”
Mark Twain
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