#interval

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

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. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#after #alcohol #also #before #between

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#companions #family #go #himself #his

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

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ↗

— Don Marquis

#between #interval #periods #unhappiness

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#i #interval #silence #sound #space