Top 178 Intervals Quotes & Sayings

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

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

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

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 intervals, makes the intervals active.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

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

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

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 retarded at random intervals.

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

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

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

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

I followed a controlled diet where I took care of my portions and ate at regular intervals; every 2-3 hours.

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 and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

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

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

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

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.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

I like intervals. I will turn a walk into a workout. For example, I walk for five minutes at an easy pace, then power-walk for two minutes and repeat. Intervals blast the fat.

The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

I run intervals. It helps get rid of the fat in the stomach.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

Eating at regular intervals in small amounts and not starving yourself is the key to maintaining your figures.

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

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 shore with towers and buildings.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

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.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.