Interrupted Quotes

#1. Cut the chatter!' interrupted Melnick, fiercely. 'Don't you know librarians can't stand noise? For them, noise is like waving a red rag in front of a bull.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#2. The debt of friendship is never collected," he interrupted. "And nothing is ever owed.

Sharon Shinn

#3. Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.

Katharine Graham

#4. It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Rod Serling

#5. A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

Alan Ayckbourn

#6. When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

Arcangela Tarabotti

#7. Thinking," Vrag interrupted. "Is not your prerogative, dog. That is my calling. You go where I tell you to go, you take what I tell you to take, and you kill what I tell you to kill - do I make myself plain?

S.G. Night

#8. You always thought you knew where you were headed. But now your life's been interrupted, and these personal goals, hopes, and trajectories are being asked to take a backseat to what God uniquely has in mind for you.

Priscilla Shirer

#9. Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter."
"Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-"
"It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're using logic. That's scaring me."
Walters eyebrows knitted. "So much for terms of endearment

Bryan Davis

#10. A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

Howard Jacobson

#11. The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity.

Scott Lynch

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

Norman Lear

#14. I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.

Magda Gerber

#15. Funny how your life could be interrupted: You left a house expecting to come back, but then the path you were on took you left instead of around again to the right. How

J.R. Ward

#16. The strategy is obviously a business decision to have limited advertising on the WWE Network. We want subscribers to know that there won't be commercial breaks during scheduled programming, so your shows won't be interrupted.

Stephanie McMahon

#17. 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.

Susan Cain

#18. The person who says it can't be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

Summer Sanders

#21. Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing 'cause I loooove your a - "
"For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone call a vet. There is an injured animal screaming in pain outside," Charlotte interrupted the flow of music in ill-humor.

Michelle M. Pillow

#22. As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.

Susan Shreve

#23. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

#24. Habits speed time, because when every day is the same, experience shortens and blurs; by contrast, time slows down when habits are interrupted, when the brain must process new information.

Gretchen Rubin

#25. Tell me," Cole coaxed again, "how would you handle me?"
"Well," she began hesitantly, her eyes locked on his, "I suppose I'd begin by telling you what a fine figure of a man you are. How handsome - "
"Forget about my pretty face," he interrupted.

Victoria Lynne

#26. I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.

Margaret Maron

#27. The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#28. I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just ... ugh, you know?

Alan Ball

#29. I've got something so lovely to think about that I'd like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.

Annie Fellows Johnston

#30. Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#31. I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

Jeremy Fisher

#32. Time spent in being interrupted is not time lost ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

#33. said to him quietly, as if I couldn't hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.

John Green

#34. We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#35. The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity ... What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Susan Cain

#36. You're seriously suggesting this?" Az interrupted, his face full of disbelief. "That I what, dump her so she kills herself? That's fucked up.

Leah Clifford

#37. When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Elisabeth Elliot

#38. I'll wear it,' Frost interrupted, the thought of hot pink undoing him.

Scarlett Dawn

#39. Nonono, Nick,' Gilpin interrupted. He pulled a chair up to the table and sat on it backward. I wondered if cops actually did that. Or did some clever actor do that, and then cops began doing it because they'd seen the actors playing cops do that and it looked cool?

Gillian Flynn

#40. Yes, I know," Lionel interrupted. "Well, I shall read them all. I love to read. I am so glad I learned to read.

E. Nesbit

#41. 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

#42. We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

Vanna Bonta

#43. I was always awake!" interrupted Faith. "I was always angry!

Frances Hardinge

#44. I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

Daniel Handler

#45. You know, that bishop strategy you often use is incredibly devious, and I was just about to try a new way to block it before we were so rudely interrupted by the end of the world.

Lia Habel

#46. 'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

Edward Hirsch

#47. The history of life thus consists of 'long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#48. The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

Neil Gaiman

#49. Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minutes earlier and announced that a crazed Ethiope was at the door, presumably to buy a watch.

K.W. Jeter

#50. There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.

Philip Caveney

#51. The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Leonard Bernstein

#52. Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. I'm pretty sure you were in my dreams before you walked into my life. I felt it the first time I saw you. You pulled at me. Took hold of my heart and never let go." ... "You were never supposed to be with Dillon. You were always supposed to wind up with me, but fate interrupted us for awhile

Gail McHugh

#54. Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering."
"Are you saying that you -"
"Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.

Rachel Caine

#55. Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

Fay Weldon

#56. Well, I reckon you should
" Ron began, but he was interrupted by the Fat Lady, who had been watching them sleepily and now burst out, "Are you going to give me the password or will I have to say awake all night waiting for you to finish your conversation?

J.K. Rowling

#57. Lord, this man before me is known to you. Beckett's soul is littered with sins that he committed to protect Blake and me. "
Beckett interrupted.
"Some of those sins were for the sake of my horny penis.

Debra Anastasia

#58. If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, "I'm glad to see you," and said with your heartier soul, "I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time." When

Mark Twain

#59. Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

Milan Kundera

#60. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams

Dan Davin

#61. Boy," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest.

Rick Riordan

#62. Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence ... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.

Isaac Newton

#63. Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word."
"And you're a big-"
"Tsk tsk," he interrupted. "No swearing in church.

Cassandra Clare

#64. It felt odd to have interrupted the life of someone she knew nothing about, to kill someone she had only just met, as though killing needed intimacy, deep knowledge of the other, to make it all right.

Pamela Freeman

#65. Some women are saddled with men who have interrupted their true fate and their hearts suffer before they have realized it.

Kay Bratt

#66. This isn't some backwards planet," he interrupted. "We have all the latest reconstructive nanotechnology available. If you turned out to be a really nice person, we could fix all of your physical flaws.

Jim Proctor

#67. The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short bristled type that suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog.

Terry Pratchett

#68. Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea. You don't want to be interrupted by ads when you're chatting with your loved ones.

Jan Koum

#69. You'll have to excuse Zo's manners. She was raised by a group of indigenous swamp wallabies and is at times uncomfortable conversing with civilized humans."
"Look, it's like this-" Zo started to say, but then she interrupted herself. "Swamp wallabies?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#70. Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.

Peter Dickinson

#71. A half-blood of the eldest dogs ... "
"Er, Percy?" Annabeth interrupted. "That's gods. Not dogs.

Rick Riordan

#72. I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

Shannyn Sossamon

#73. Kill," the man said, stalking into the room and holding out his hand. A smirk spread his lips, remembering what he'd interrupted. "On second thought, perhaps I won't give you my hand. I don't know what you'll do with it.

Pepper Winters

#74. Are you hungry?" Livvie asked. I could barely hear her as I set the bags in the living room. Livvie had made her way toward the bedroom. "Yes," I called out, "but I don't think you have anything in your cupboards worth - " "Then get in here and eat my pussy!" Livvie interrupted.

C.J. Roberts

#75. 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

#76. What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but in the head? Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite determent and displacement of anticipated pleasure which the brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted.

David Lodge

#77. For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-"
"I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?

Rachel Vincent

#78. I am haunted by interrupted acts,
introspective as a leper, enchanted
by a repulsive clew,
a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?

Muriel Rukeyser

#79. 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

#80. interrupted, he would fall silent, then began his sentence again in exactly the same place to tell it in his own way, at his own speed.

Mar Preston

#81. Four: Too many wasteful 'synchronization' meetings interrupted the actual work.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#82. It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#83. Life is a series of stupid decisions interrupted by luck.

Alessandra Torre

#84. A too tight white shirt," she continued as though he hadn't interrupted, "strained across a great chest, really great biceps, and his head under the hood of the car, a little sweaty, a little messy, a lot handy."

"You sound like a pimp.

Lauren Layne

#85. He interrupted. "No, Lisa, other families do not have sons who are Girl Scouts. I'm teaching that boy to fight," Jason muttered to himself, "A gay, black Girl Scout. What the hell happened to this family? We were normal back in San Francisco.

Jennifer Coburn

#86. Reuben was the child of Polish-speaking parents.' The Director interrupted himself. 'You know what Polish is, I suppose?' 'A dead language.

Aldous Huxley

#87. If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Jim Butcher

#88. Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken ... It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

#89. I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

John Green

#90. Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate
with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel
she cannot help being mad.

Charlotte Bronte

#91. A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed.
"There, you see?" asked Abe, quite pleased with himself. "A new gate. Perfect timing.

Richelle Mead

#92. I gotta say" - Apollo broke the silence - "these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: "Heroes win laurels - "
Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.

Rick Riordan

#93. There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, "What?" Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha - ?

Lorrie Moore

#94. Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Ogden Nash

#95. While I'm sure this is going to be a fascinating story,' I interrupted. 'I don't care. I'm having a major parental crisis that sort of outshines your little tantrum, and frankly it seems like my dad agrees with you. I have a party to get ready for, can we do this later?

Kody Keplinger

#96. That's probably the most sincere thing that I've ever heard come out of your mouth."

Logan lowered his eyes to Tate's hand. "Now, that's not true. I was very sincere this morning when I told you that I loved sucking your - "

"Don't ruin it," Tate interrupted.

Ella Frank

#97. He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.

Alden Bell

#98. A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.

Ursula Hegi

#99. Their long overdue kiss was interrupted far too soon for either of their likings.
"Well, it be about time!"
Nothing on God's earth can douse a man's ardor like the sound of his mother's voice.

Suzan Tisdale

#100. Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska