Quotes About Hiatus

#1. Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Milan Kundera

#2. Then why don't you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick)
I don't want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel's Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I'd take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

Mel Gibson

#4. Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

Adam Driver

#5. I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

Cynthia Ozick

#6. Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.

Barbara Isenberg

#7. War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

Norman Finkelstein

#8. I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.

Bun E. Carlos

#9. Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

Steven Spielberg

#10. I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I've kept myself busy recently. I voiced a character in 'Ice Age 4,' which was a lot of fun. I also did another small movie called 'The Scribbler.'

Kunal Nayyar

#11. I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

Madison Pettis

#12. The day Blink-182 announced their hiatus, I felt as if a part of me died.

Alex Gaskarth

#13. You don't need to be burned out to go on hiatus.

Danielle LaPorte

#14. Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

Nenia Campbell

#15. This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

Khandi Alexander

#16. How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?

Jodie Sweetin

#17. I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.

Carrie Brownstein

#18. I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

Matt Barr

#19. The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

Chuck Mangione

#20. My hiatus is over, my soul and body are healed, but I will never leave the purple chair for long. So many books waiting to be read, so much happiness to be found, so much wonder to be revealed.

Nina Sankovitch

#21. 'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

Fefe Dobson

#22. It meant good-bye to London and to Churchill, whose company Harriman thoroughly enjoyed, and to Pamela, whose bed he enjoyed (the lovers' hiatus lasted almost three decades, until 1971, when Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward became the third Mrs. Harriman).

William Manchester

#23. They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.

Anita Brookner

#24. If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

Jane Krakowski

#25. I'm blessed enough to been in the game for a while and still have my beautiful fans and still have the respect. That's something that gets me going. I'm also fortunate enough to take vacation and take a little hiatus.

Lil' Kim

#26. My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

Jim Parsons

#27. I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Brooke Elliott

#28. I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

Miley Cyrus

#29. Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Lauren Ambrose

#30. Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.

Marc Guggenheim

#31. There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Juliet Stevenson

#32. It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.

Betsy Brandt

#33. When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was 'Everybody Loves a Winner.'

William Bell

#34. What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods
even extended ones
of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

Alexi Murdoch

#35. There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.

Nat Faxon

#36. One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

Marilyn Nelson

#37. On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.

Martin Milner

#38. Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

Gregory Harrison

#39. The beginnings of carpal tunnel were threatening to set in as I tried desperately to get myself off. But O was on seemingly permanent hiatus. And I don't mean Oprah.

Alice Clayton

#40. A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.

Mark Doty

#41. It's been over 15 years since I toured ... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

Thomas Dolby

#42. I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

Jennifer Carpenter

#43. Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

Nathan Fillion

#44. It is essential to consider as a constant point of reference in this essay the regular hiatus between what we fancy we know and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance which allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life.

Albert Camus

#45. If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Trey Anastasio

#46. I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

Jack McCollough

#47. Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

Victoria Pratt

#48. Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.

Jacob Slichter

#49. I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.

Sarah Michelle Gellar