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
If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which… — Hardin B. Jones Copy Share Image
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes… — Paul Klee 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
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
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
You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you… — Ernie J Zelinski 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
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
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
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
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
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
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order,… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot 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 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
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
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
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
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
[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
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image