#interval

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#capacity #consistency #cycles #homogeneity #i

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

— Woodrow Wilson

#another #blessed #forget #i #i am

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

#contrary #eccentric #govern #impulses #intervals

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

— Frank Shorter

#improve #intervals #other #running #speed

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. ↗

— George Kubler

#interval #renewal #sunyata #the-shape-of-time #time

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

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

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. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#farms #fort #hand #intervals #leavenworth

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#between #big #bite #book #choice

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. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

#before #between #breeze #bride #call

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. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#colour #composite #continuous #infinitely #infinity