Intermissions Quotes

#1. They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.

Jonathan Swift

#2. I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.

Jefferson Mays

#3. The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

Guy Debord

#4. We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

Laurence Sterne

#5. Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Samuel Johnson

#6. In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

Joe Bob Briggs

#7. Books don't have intermissions either."

"What do they have?"

"Endings.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. In order to see a fish you must watch the water

Bodhidharma

#9. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

Arthur Cecil Pigou

#10. Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

Randy Falco

#11. He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.

Pema Chodron

#14. You can't fall apart yet."
She nodded, her face turned from me.
"Come here," I said, moving over in the bed. "If you really don't mind my being patient zero."
She swallowed her tears. I pulled back the sheet, and she crawled in beside me, putting her head on my chest.

Brittany Cavallaro

#15. I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

Debasish Mridha