#interrupt

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

#curtain #i #interrupted #want #went

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#around #assigned #bahrain #been #consequences

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#because #changed #consistency #disaster #easy

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#doing #done #interrupt #people #say

If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is what you say while you're thinking of what you'll really say. Um suggests someone interrupted before they'd begun. Um is a fifteen-year-old girl who gets hit by a taxicab in front of a mall on the way to help pick out a prom dress for a prom she isn't even going to, for God's sake. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#interrupted #um #death

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#american worker #average #average american #day #fifty

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. ↗

— John Locke

#cannot #current #discourse #greater #his

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#change #interrupt #massive #old #pattern