Intermittence Quotes & Sayings

Our axles don't match but our wheels are turning. — Nancy E. Turner

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance. — Roland Barthes

Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect. — Murray N. Rothbard

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. — Diana Wynne Jones

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. — Agnes Repplier

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive. — E. M. Forster

There ain't no harm in a hound, nohow. — Mark Twain

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the Owners really valued the Crow's Nest partly as a cultural institution and partly because it gave them access to the sort of information about the lives, thoughts, and deeds of important persons that could only be had in a bar. — Neal Stephenson

I love you, Miss Mary. I'm no good for you, but if you'll have me, I'm yours. Forever. — Kristina Douglas

say'st thou, noble heart? RODERIGO What will I do, thinkest thou? IAGO Why, go to bed and sleep. RODERIGO — William Shakespeare

Be good. It'll be a new experience. — Susan Andersen

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work. — Peter Megargee Brown

Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up. — Eraldo Banovac

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. — John Wooden

There's adventure in the air ... and cake to be eaten. — Robert Sharenow