Interval Quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.