#interrupt

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#breakfast #daily #death #destruction #fact

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#buildings #cannot #comprehend #medieval #really

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#each #exactly #i #i can #interruptions

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #deceived #deception #habitual #life

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

I remember doing my SATs on a film set; you had to complete the tests in a certain time and, obviously, you couldn't be interrupted. I think I did pretty well; it wasn't too difficult. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#certain time #complete #did #difficult #doing

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#being #interrupted #kicks #nobody

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#aspect #different #emphasis #every #free

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#active #interrupt #know #listeners #talking