#interrupt

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

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

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s. ↗

— David Cone

#been #currently #enjoying #inconceivable #interruption

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#after #am #among #childhood #continue

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

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

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#each #else #everybody #everybody else #feel

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#alternative #argument #because #could #examine

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. ↗

— George Ade

#country #entertainment #form #funeral #interruption

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