Top 100 Interrupted Quotes

#1. Who's the guy?" Ty interrupted my thoughts. "The blond dude with the mini me on top of him. He wants in your pants. I don't think I like it.

Claudia Y. Burgoa

Interrupted Quotes #6002
#2. Plague? the guard interrupted.

Susan Dennard

Interrupted Quotes #12784
#3. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Francois Mauriac

Interrupted Quotes #18915
#4. A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

James Keller

Interrupted Quotes #24775
#5. This sounds fine with me, I like the idea of seeing a shrink once a week as maintenance. It's another chance to talk about myself without being interrupted. Plus, a shrink doesn't really know me, so I can present a more balanced picture of who I really am.

Augusten Burroughs

Interrupted Quotes #25604
#6. When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.

Aaron Swartz

Interrupted Quotes #26364
#7. For me,the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

Gunter Brus

Interrupted Quotes #28803
#8. (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)

Rudyard Kipling

Interrupted Quotes #30344
#9. I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

William T. Vollmann

Interrupted Quotes #49772
#10. It was no wonder my love life was so messed up when the most profound and intimate moments were always being interrupted by dire situations

Richelle Mead

Interrupted Quotes #55768
#11. Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

Carlos Castaneda

Interrupted Quotes #61380
#12. Healing is a delicate process. It can't be interrupted or influenced by erratic emotions.

Tahereh Mafi

Interrupted Quotes #67446
#13. My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Susanna Kaysen

Interrupted Quotes #72727
#14. Shh," I interrupted him. "Hold on a second. I think I'm having an epiphany here.

Stephenie Meyer

Interrupted Quotes #79056
#15. Alice interrupted. No tears, no secrets. I want the life I'm meant to have, Etta. It's as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectations or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices ...

Alexandra Bracken

Interrupted Quotes #87695
#16. You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment.

Lynsay Sands

Interrupted Quotes #92847
#17. I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

Noga Alon

Interrupted Quotes #95827
#18. To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

Elisabeth Moss

Interrupted Quotes #99207
#19. Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story ...

Laurence Sterne

Interrupted Quotes #109589
#20. But if someone had slowed him down, just slightly interrupted his course, maybe he could have gotten through that one nightmarish moment; maybe he would never get that close to it again.

Frederick Barthelme

Interrupted Quotes #110409
#21. Hmm," Logan hummed in his ear. "You don't taste like a cherry anymore."
Tate turned his head on the pillow. "A cherry? I don't - "
"Yep," Logan interrupted, kissing his cheek. "I popped it, sucked on the seed, then licked it all up, and made it mine.

Ella Frank

Interrupted Quotes #111462
#22. The sorrow came from those two feelings - the happiness of company, the anxiety of interrupted solitude.

Amanda Coplin

Interrupted Quotes #116142
#23. A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

David Brooks

Interrupted Quotes #122242
#24. In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Interrupted Quotes #143986
#25. I wanted to structure a day where a hypothetical random snapshot of me looked like Carrie Bradshaw in her kimono, totally relaxed, not Brittany Murphy in Girl, Interrupted, diddling an old chicken under her bed. The

Jessi Klein

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#26. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

Susanna Kaysen

Interrupted Quotes #152429
#27. I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

Virginia Woolf

Interrupted Quotes #154261
#28. My father toasted me mockingly with his glass. "Then eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die."

"Next week," Hades interrupted.

Zeus glowered at him. "Yes, obviously, but I was using a metaphor."
"No," his brother replied. "You were paraphrasing. Badly.

Tellulah Darling

Interrupted Quotes #166923
#29. It was plain that this lady was not accustomed to being interrupted, much less contradicted. She had probably never in her life had that salutary experience.

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

Interrupted Quotes #168652
#30. When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?

Lisa Kleypas

Interrupted Quotes #171076
#31. Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Interrupted Quotes #171527
#32. As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

Jay Maisel

Interrupted Quotes #172065
#33. But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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#34. Nothing's going to happen to you," Max interrupted, gripping my shoulders and forcing me to look at him. "Because you're not going to do it. You're going to tell her to go to hell!

Kimberly Derting

Interrupted Quotes #207176
#35. Charlotte, darling," Henry said to his wife, who was staring at him in gape-mouthed horror. Jessamine, beside her, was wide eyed. "Sorry I'm late. You know, I think I might nearly have the Sensor working-"
Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "You're on fire. You do know that don't you?

Cassandra Clare

Interrupted Quotes #211882
#36. Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. I'm sorry if my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.

Laini Taylor

Interrupted Quotes #219355
#37. one of Chloe's models 'as gone down wif leprosy . . ."
"Wait," interrupted Niall. "Leprosy?"
"That's what Chlo said. That fing wif your throat where you can't talk."
"That's laryngitis.

Alexis Hall

Interrupted Quotes #220182
#38. The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.'
'Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.'
'If you desert, we will desert with you.

Gabriel Dumont

Interrupted Quotes #221051
#39. I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Patrick Marber

Interrupted Quotes #221655
#40. There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply.
"That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#41. Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

James Baldwin

Interrupted Quotes #230725
#42. the deaf man interrupted. "Let the boys

Franklin W. Dixon

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#43. Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

Paul Watzlawick

Interrupted Quotes #238093
#44. Tool interrupted, 'do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.

Steven Erikson

Interrupted Quotes #240432
#45. I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

Immanuel Kant

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#46. We need hope as much as we need bread and meat," he interrupted, his eyes clear for a rare moment. "We need hope, or else we cannot endure. So let her keep this hope, Feyre. Let her imagine a better life. A better world.

Sarah J. Maas

Interrupted Quotes #249926
#47. Let me guess," the frog interrupted,"Like every other human explored I've even met, you want to know the meaning of life."
"I didn't-"
"The answer's forty-four. The machine was off by two" the frog snapped, "Believe me, it makes a world of difference...

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

Interrupted Quotes #259125
#48. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Karen Karbo

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#49. Have I interrupted a conversation?' she asked.
'No, only a complete silence,' said Birkin.
'Oh,' said Ursula, vaguely, absent.

D.H. Lawrence

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#50. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

Susan Cain

Interrupted Quotes #263526
#51. I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

Amy Sedaris

Interrupted Quotes #265897
#52. A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Saul Alinsky

Interrupted Quotes #270929
#53. Connected to the Crane's Nest than she. Still, it sort of sucked to have what was a pretty epic kiss interrupted by ghostly possession. Ghosts were so damn rude.

Anonymous

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#54. The shaykh interrupted him, saying, Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad

Naguib Mahfouz

Interrupted Quotes #277553
#55. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

Franz Kafka

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#56. Oh, do shove off, Lady Bling. I was thinking some rather important thoughts before you interrupted me.

Gail Carriger

Interrupted Quotes #288162
#57. And how did this misfortune occur? inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.

Alexandre Dumas

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#58. Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

Mutabaruka

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#59. I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

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#60. No sugarcoating would be necessary," Matthew interrupted calmly. "Daisy ... that is, Miss Bowman, is entirely - " Beautiful. Desirable. Bewitching. " - acceptable. Marrying a woman like Miss Bowman would be a reward in itself.

Lisa Kleypas

Interrupted Quotes #318160
#61. The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

Tom Scholz

Interrupted Quotes #318853
#62. No, no buts," he interrupted with a shake of his head. "I'm tired of people telling what i feel and how i should feel. I know it sounds crazy, but i know what i feel. i know this is real.

M. Leighton

Interrupted Quotes #322471
#63. About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

Simon Amstell

Interrupted Quotes #326439
#64. Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones.

Dexter Palmer

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#65. My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Winston S. Churchill

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#66. Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Carrie Vaughn

Interrupted Quotes #330521
#67. Remember when I told you I knew about you? You interrupted me. I wasn't going to say I sympathized with you; I was going to say I didn't give a damn. Life is hard for everyone, some more than others. But the damage you cause to other people, that's on you. Your pain has made you into a monster.

Layton Green

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#68. The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

Jesse Eisenberg

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#69. A vicious boredom ruled the world, for the first time in human history, interrupted by meaningless acts of violence.

J.G. Ballard

Interrupted Quotes #365599
#70. I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.

Franklin W. Dixon

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#71. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Emma Woolf

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#72. Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

Zoey Dean

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#73. Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking ...

J.K. Rowling

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#74. I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.

Agatha Christie

Interrupted Quotes #406417
#75. It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

Christine Caine

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#76. For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#77. Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Will Durant

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#78. Perfectly good sex?" Cam interrupted us, drawing both our gazes. His voice was low with some unnamed emotion. "Abstain?" His now heated eyes ran the length of me before returning to meet mine. "Then he isn't doing it right.

Samantha Young

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#79. It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

H.G.Wells

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#80. Not one of them," he interrupted me quickly, shaking his head. "One of us.

Stephenie Meyer

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#81. The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Henry Chadwick

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#82. Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to ... '
To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.

Wm. Paul Young

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#83. Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

Alexandra Adornetto

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#84. The intermittent rays of light interrupted by pockets of dark patches create an almost mystical look

Unknown

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#85. The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

Joseph Jacobs

Interrupted Quotes #477469
#86. I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

Lindsey McKeon

Interrupted Quotes #481409
#87. You've taken everything from me ... "
"No," she interrupted. "Me, I take nothing. I only take by the hand. So that no-one must be alone and lost in the fog ... Goodbye, Gerald of Rivia. Some other day.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Interrupted Quotes #485254
#88. As soon as he is regarded as a possession for which one has a particular goal, as soon as one exerts control over him, his natural growth will be violently interrupted.

Alice Miller

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#89. My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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#90. Got Bin Laden AND interrupted Celebrity Apprentice? Win for Obama all around.

Jimmy Fallon

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#91. Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

Richard Dreyfuss

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#92. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

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#93. You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"
"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"
"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.

Lisa Kleypas

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#94. How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

Jason Fried

Interrupted Quotes #530070
#95. I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

Anne Perry

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

Kin Hubbard

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#97. Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

Carole Katchen

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#98. A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

Kit Bond

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#99. I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.

Ellen Gilchrist

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#100. Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life).

Lou Andreas-Salome

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