Interval Quotes

95 quotes by 88 authors

The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered… — Barbara Mertz
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years. — Erich Maria Remarque
It is the hour of pearlâ€”the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. — John Steinbeck
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time… — John Steinbeck
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of… — Anne Rice
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before… — Margaret Mitchell
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again… — Stefan Zweig
My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and… — Robin McKinley
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has… — Marcus Aurelius
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. — Jane Austen
I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid… — Sylvia Plath
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant;… — Charlotte Bronte
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on… — P.G. Wodehouse
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in… — William Faulkner
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again... — Laini Taylor
He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many… — Haruki Murakami
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson

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