Top 100 Quotes About Take A Break
#1. Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.
Anne Fine
#2. Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
Adam Savage
#3. And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren't allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.
Eric Schlosser
#4. I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.
Gene Wilder
#5. Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
Mick Fleetwood
#6. It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.
Neil Jackson
#7. Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
Madi Diaz
#8. Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.
Melody Carlson
#9. If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.
Mark Helprin
#10. The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
Liane Moriarty
#11. In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Rest when you're tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn't something you have - it's something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.
Melody Beattie
#13. It is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet - as if they, like day animals, take a break in the middle of their work to rest.
Alexandra Fuller
#14. If you're not enjoying writing, take a break. Let your passion return. Why should a reader like it if you don't?
Kira Hawke
#15. I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
Thomas Friedman
#16. I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.
Stephen Chbosky
#18. Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break! You deserve it.
Steven Cuoco
#19. Yeah, don't you take a break?'
'I don't have time for breaks.'
'That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#20. I'm still playing 'GTA;' the online multiplayer is just fantastic. 'Titanfall,' if you can actually get on, is really good, and I just finished the 'Left Behind DLC,' which again, it's one of those games where you put the controller down once you finish and just need to take a break!
Troy Baker
#21. I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.
Sean Combs
#22. I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.
Noah Hawley
#23. You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'
Sendhil Mullainathan
#24. Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you are on stage, you would be obnoxious. With the jokes and the putdowns, I would need to take a break ... juggle something.
Dom Irrera
#25. I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.
Stephen Daldry
#26. Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#27. I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. You also need to take time - that's how you do good stuff - layering and depth of knowledge.
Rebecca Miller
#28. In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.
Scott Adams
#29. When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself.
Holly Mosier
#30. I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.
D. M. Turner
#31. I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
Alicia Keys
#32. I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
Maggie Cheung
#33. I had my back waxed once by two women ... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?
Robin Williams
#34. Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
Douglas Coupland
#35. Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.
Lurlene McDaniel
#36. Once the behavior finally drops off (this could take as long as an hour or two) and you take a break from the dog for awhile, you should expect to go through the same experience again when you return. This
Pamela J. Reid
#37. I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.
John Fante
#38. It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality
Sara Bergmark Elfgren
#39. I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.
James Dashner
#40. That awesome moment when I'm in my zone. Comp on, internet off, WhatsApp muted, Word doc open, muse connected, fingers racing, time flying. Stomach groans with hunger but I can't drag myself away from the keyboard. By the time I take a break, I look back and I'm like, "Hell, yeah!
Tom Jalio
#41. We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around you.
Marisha Pessl
#42. After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.
Cary Fukunaga
#43. I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
Max Cannon
#44. It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
Alice Hoffman
#45. I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies. And this is A Good Thing.
Helen Russell
#46. Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Patricia Cornwell
#47. I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.
Kristen Stewart
#48. I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.
Emily Giffin
#49. Today, take a break from your ego and don't take yourself too seriously. Enjoy your Spirit and laugh!
Sonia Choquette
#50. I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.
Chris O'Donnell
#51. I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.
Diane Lane
#52. Take a break of that which you enjoy and what you don't enjoy leave it.
Deyth Banger
#53. I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.
Joyce Tenneson
#54. I'm not judging you. If you want to take a break to look at tree dicks, we'll take one.
Ashlan Thomas
#55. I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliyah
#56. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#57. In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#58. Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal ...
Oliver Sacks
#59. Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.
Sean Paul
#60. Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [ ... ].
Arlaina Tibensky
#61. Sometimes even grown women need their mother's comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.
Colleen Hoover
#62. I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
Fergie
#63. I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
Kate Reardon
#64. I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.
Augusten Burroughs
#65. I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.
Rulon Gardner
#66. I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.
Chaim Potok
#67. For as long as I've known him, Sam has been trying to out-run his demons. But he can't see the truth. His problems - they never sleep, never take a break. They'll wear him down before he can wear them out.
Lisa Magnum
#68. When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
Amy Ray
#69. Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
Kathryn Harrison
#70. If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.
Colin Cunningham
#71. I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
Gad Elmaleh
#72. In the meantime, relax. Take a break. Look at the clouds. Listen to the wind. Let the birds do the heavy lifting. A
Richard Louv
#73. I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.
Chelsea Kane
#74. You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.
Stephen Leigh
#75. I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.
Toni Braxton
#76. If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
Justin Timberlake
#77. I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper.
Lillian R. Melendez
#78. Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#79. Dad laughs. "You want to take a break? Go play with them?"
The problem is I'm sixteen, almost seventeen, and I don't want to play with them as much as I want to want to play with them. Maybe this feeling is what Noah's been running from.
Hannah Moskowitz
#80. When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
Gloria Steinem
#81. Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.
Evan Williams
#82. Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.
Joe Plumeri
#83. A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
Maxwell
#84. You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bill Gates
#85. I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
Queen Latifah
#86. In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
Matt Cameron
#87. When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.
Troy Dumais
#88. I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.
Ruth Wilson
#89. When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels ... it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.
Jon Spencer
#90. I want to take a break from everything,to find out if ... i'm still ALIVE!
Mareez Reyes
#91. For the love of broken beavers, do you two ever take a break?
Helena Hunting
#92. I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!
Denise Mina
#93. It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
Graydon Carter
#94. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
Chris O'Donnell
#95. It is fine to take a break from an effortful task every once in a while but your learning experience will be diminished without sustained effort.
Art Markman
#96. There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#97. I'm not getting this. How do you take a break from who you are, Shay Shay?
Bill Konigsberg
#99. As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.
Kirsty Gallacher
#100. I don't ever take a break. I'm always writing.
Dito Montiel
