I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into…

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

— Terry Pratchett

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a…

— Eminem

Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

— Stephen Mansfield

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous…

— Barbara Tuchman

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then…

— Paul McCartney

The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no…

— Jacques Ellul

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady…

— Al Alvarez

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives…

— Billy Graham

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts…

— Douglas Wilson

It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true…

— David A. Bednar

For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude…

— Sergio Chejfec

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

— Pearl S. Buck

If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the…

— Wilfred Trotter

“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside…

— Alain de Botton