Intervals Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed. — Frank Shorter
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. — W. S. Gilbert
I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals. — Khalil
I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible. — Woody Shaw
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen… — William Allen White
For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into… — Thomas Merton
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the… — Paul Klee
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks… — Vincent Van Gogh
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. — Marcel Proust
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. — Francois Arago
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and… — Winston Churchill
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another… — Charles Dickens
The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna… — Aristotle
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so… — Blaise Pascal
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners… — Victor Hugo
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down… — Kenny Smith
I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. — Robert Plant
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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