Intervals Quotes

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

— Miguel de Cervantes

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

— Ed Begley, Jr

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

— Paulo Coelho

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

— Charles Lamb

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

— Will Durant

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

— Robert Plant

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

— Laurence Sterne

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

— Henry Scott Holland

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

— Rick Bayan

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of…

— Janeane Garofalo

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful…

— Robert Bringhurst

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

— Annie Dillard

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

— Theodor Adorno

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction…

— Lewis Carroll

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

— Francois Arago

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values…

— Marshall McLuhan

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would…

— Blaise Pascal

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

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the…

— Aristotle

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

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

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that…

— Herodotus

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

Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long…

— Charles Darwin

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in…

— William Beveridge

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory…

— James Russell Lowell

Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were…

— Michael Kosser

I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the…

— James A. Michener

Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony…

— Igor Stravinsky

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war…

— Winston Churchill

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

— John Terry

I run intervals. It helps get rid of the fat in the stomach.

— Isabeli Fontana

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

— Frank Shorter

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

— Samuel Johnson

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

— Sophie Irene Loeb

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

— Winston Churchill

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

— Thomas Browne

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter…

— Henry Thomas Buckle