Intervals Quotes

• In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is your nature. For thoughts come and go - they are accidental - but that inner space always remains. Clouds gather and go, disappear - they are accidental - but the sky remains. You are the sky.

  Rajneesh

  Space, Clouds, Sky

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Essentials, Speed

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Meditation And Yoga, Long, Calming

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Two, Brain

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• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Passion, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.264

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• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  Hans Hofmann

  Mean, Color, Creating

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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

  Blessed, Mean, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1979). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Average, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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

  John Barrymore

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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• The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Order, Long, Balance

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Smoking, Alcohol

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• It was a dark and stormy night.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dark, Night, Snoopy

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dark, Night, Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz (2015). “Peanuts Movie Novelization”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diversity, Joy, Life Is

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.156

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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

  Jane Austen

  Grateful, Meditation, Serious

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.707, Modern Library

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• God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

  Mark Twain

  God, Writing, Attention

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• 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.

  Sivananda

  Love, Peace, Buddhist

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Ballet, Ballerina

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• And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Light, Giving

  "The Last Question". Science Fiction Quarterly, archive.org. November 1956.

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• 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 melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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