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
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. — Francois Arago 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
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz… — Arpad Elo Copy Share Image
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are… — Jacques Derrida 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
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill 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
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using… — Charlie Parker 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
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. — Mark Twain 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
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
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and… — Charles Dickens 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
CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
