Interval Quotes
95 quotes by 88 authors
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
— Walter Bagehot
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
— John Barrymore
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily…
— John C. Calhoun
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
— Georges Clemenceau
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Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy…
— Adolf Hitler
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of…
— George Santayana
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
— Henry Scott Holland
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This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.
— John Terry
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I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively…
— Nel Noddings
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He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
— Samuel Johnson
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LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars.…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying…
— Samuel Alexander
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,…
— Yousuf Karsh
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It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the…
— Herodotus
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Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
— Charles Darwin
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Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition…
— Igor Stravinsky
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right,…
— Eddie Van Halen
Who Wrote These Interval Quotes
88 authors contributed a total of 95 Interval Quotes, led by these top contributors: