A Quote by Jack Benny

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Jack Benny

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Jack Benny
American - Comedian
February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974

I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

Emily Dickinson

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

W. Somerset Maugham

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

Craig Clevenger

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

Octavio Paz

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

A. J. Jacobs

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

Troye Sivan

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

Jacqueline Woodson

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Ed Miliband

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Rollo May

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Walter Brueggemann

Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.