Famous quotes containing the word pause:
“Too often when you thought youd be showered with confetti
What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti
Youve put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock
Yet you pause before your fathers door afraid to knock”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It means there are times when a mere scientist has gone as far as he can. When he must pause and observe respectfully while something infinitely greater assumes control.”
—Kurt Neumann (19061958)
“Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
—William Empson (19061984)
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