(145 quotes found)
“The most precious things in speech are pauses”
Ralph Richardson
“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
“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
“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
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain
“You make one error, you pause, stumble, hesitate too long, don't hesitate long enough, run a word together, hit your 'S' too hard, hit your 'T' too hard--[the director is] like: 'Um, could you please pick it up from the top of the paragraph?'”
Nicholas Sparks
“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
“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”
Clarence Day
“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”
