Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out practically.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you then they say you're mad then dangerous then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

There comes a pause for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses not conclusions.

In the theater it's about taking time in a musical segment a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

You know I never used to be a bad flyer but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

The other day the President said I know you've had some rough times and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused then said would you like a puppy?

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good it sucks and every day I fight it to the death or at the very least not let it take me over.

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place which is different than me singing the blues where I can sing 'Oh baby ' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz you better leave that space open or put in something real cool.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.

The world is a crazy beautiful ugly complicated place and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away that's when this stuff comes.

The principle of art is to pause not bypass.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40 and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.