Interval Quotes

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana)
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
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. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval. View quote
Daniel Levitin
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
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. View quote
John Updike
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. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal... View quote
Hans Reichenbach
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. (Marshall McLuhan)
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! View quote
Joseph Addison
The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars. View quote
Lu Xun
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. View quote
Herodotus
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. View quote
Don Marquis
It is the hour of pearl-the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. View quote
John Steinbeck
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry. View quote
Herbert Read
Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. View quote
George Kubler
Why do entrepreneurs appear, not continuously, that is singly in every appropriately chosen interval, but in clusters? Exclusively because the appearance of one or a few entrepreneurs facilitates the appearance of others, and these the appearance of more, in ever-increasing numbers. View quote
Joseph Schumpeter
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. View quote
John Barrymore
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. (John Cassian)
Cents are the most universally used interval measure. View quote
Alexander John Ellis
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. View quote
Catherine Ndereba
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. View quote
Gabriel Lippmann
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. View quote
Joseph J. Ellis