Intervals Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

I donâ€™t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. — Anton Chekhov
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing… — Daniel Handler
At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals. — Louise GluÌˆck
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and… — Mark Twain
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. — Raymond Carver
I donâ€™t know what they are called, the spaces between secondsâ€“ but I think of you always in those intervals. — Salvador Plascencia
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting… — Walter Kirn
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to… — Rosie Thomas
Iâ€™ve told you the four thunderstorms â€“ disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your… — Chetan Bhagat
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries… — Alain de Botton
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or… — D. H. Lawrence
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive… — Charlotte Bronte
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We… — Oliver Sacks
The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals. — Georgette Heyer
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge… — Hope Edelman
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,… — David Hume
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps… — Mark Twain

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