You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically. – Hector Elizondo
In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they’ll just edit it out. – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman. – Ben Casnocha
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader’s mind. It has, in fact, the last word. – F. L. Lucas
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there’s little pause for moral or legal contemplation. – David Malpass
I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese. – Marie-Chantal Claire
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain
We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue. – Jeff Duncan
I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button. – Robin S. Sharma
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. – Richard Schickel
Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while! – Rudolph A. Marcus
