How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the… — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass… — Diplo Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each,… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals)… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
