Quotes about Interval

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight") Votes: 3

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 such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. Votes: 3

Cents are the most universally used interval measure. Votes: 2

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Votes: 2

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. Votes: 2

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. Votes: 2

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. Votes: 2

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. Votes: 2

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. Votes: 2

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Votes: 2

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! Votes: 2

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. Votes: 2

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. Votes: 2

I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again. Votes: 2

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 degrees of coldness. Votes: 2

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. Votes: 2

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. Votes: 2

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 be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. Votes: 2

Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology). Votes: 2

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory. Votes: 2

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima. Votes: 2

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. Votes: 2

It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there. Votes: 2

In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War. Votes: 2

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. Votes: 2

I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago. Votes: 2

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages. Votes: 0

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss. Votes: 0

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber. Votes: 0

There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness. Votes: 0

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. Votes: 0

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. Votes: 0

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. Votes: 0

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad. Votes: 0

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. Votes: 0

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. Votes: 0

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. Votes: 0

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! Votes: 0

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Votes: 0

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another. Votes: 0

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Votes: 0

It is the hour of pearl"”the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. Votes: 0

Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Votes: 0

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. Votes: 0

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. Votes: 0

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again... Votes: 0

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. Votes: 0

THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. Votes: 0

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped. Votes: 0

Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes. Votes: 0

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends. Votes: 0

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit. Votes: 0

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself. Votes: 0

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object. Votes: 0

We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean." Votes: 0

Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval. Votes: 0

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 between dinner and supper. Votes: 0

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 life in all their purity. Votes: 0

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, all the strings should be off. Votes: 0

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. Votes: 0

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 that habitable time interval in cosmic history. Votes: 0

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it. Votes: 0

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! Votes: 0

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it. Votes: 0

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage. Votes: 0

The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career. Votes: 0

There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future. Votes: 0

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of? Votes: 0

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval. Votes: 0

My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos. Votes: 0