Interrupt Quotes

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield

Wife, Her, Spoken

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Enemy, Making, Mistake

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart

Someone, Done, Said

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke

Cannot, Another, Greater

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright

Time, Saying, Learn

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright

Women, Talking, Active

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
Murray Walker

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.
Drew Carey

Nice, Pretty, Normal

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Made, Old

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

Enemy, Him, Mistake

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.
Michael Symon

Important, Hard, Down

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.
Ryan Stiles

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.
Mike Huckabee

Life, Work, Government

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'
Sherri Shepherd

View, Taught, Confront

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.
Kenny Loggins

Change, Old, Quite

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Paul Begala

Himself, Destroying, Opponent

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
Norman Lear

End, Play, Wanted

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson

Here, Sweet, Argument

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Wayne Rogers

Hope, While, Public

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