Intervals Quotes
115 quotes by 100 authors
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly…
— Janeane Garofalo
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to…
— Charles Darwin
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Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles…
— Charles Babbage
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The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about…
— Joseph McCabe
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
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In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.
— Paulo Coelho
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Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of…
— Charles Darwin
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what…
— Alexis Carrel
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Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with…
— Mary Balogh
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There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during…
— John D. Barrow
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I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals…
— Charlie Parker
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Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
— Samuel Johnson
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Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the…
— George MacDonald Fraser
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As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader, the bartender-what they…
— Pat Martino
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Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless…
— Robert Bringhurst
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to…
— Alice James
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances,…
— Philippe Pinel
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