The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.
My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.
What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
When money talks, there are few interruptions.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
The shortest definition of religion: interruption.
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.