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

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)
  Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.

It is not enough to be pause, to be hole to be void, to be silent to be semicolon, to be semicolony; 150

-Brathwaite
  Islands, no.3 'Rebellion', pt.6 'Negus', collected as The Arrivants:  A New World Trilogy (1973).

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

-DeVoto, Bernard
The Hour.

Now I'll have eine kleine pause.

-Ferrier, Kathleen
  Last words. Quoted in Gerald Moore Am I  Too Loud? (1962).

There was a pauseöjust long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  Vainglory, ch.6.

The buck doesn't even pause here. SeeTruman 869:45.

-Regan, Donald Thomas
  Of his job. In the NewYorkTimes, 31 Jul.