Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown… — Jill Wagner Copy Share Image
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader,… — Pat Martino Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music within and a song, And echoes did feed on the… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week.… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy… — Elton John Copy Share Image
[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
![“In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bd8/adrienne-rich-803_conscious_in-family-snapshots-the-flow-of-profane_653894.png)
![“The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that is always relevant to the woman's decision, and it may serve to confuse and punish her and to heighten her anxiety.” quote by Harry A. Blackmun](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8ae/harry-a-blackmun-19399_anxiety_the-mandated-description-of-fetal-charac_316886.jpg)
![“[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2e5/laurence-sterne-1405_action_i-have-been-in-love-with-one-princess-or_1659185.jpg)