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Quotes About Irregular

My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.
~ Kevin Nealon
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
~ Maeve Binchy
The military habit makes man think far too much of definite action and far too little of brooding meditation: life is not a set campaign but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
~ Walter Bagehot
So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.
~ James Branch Cabell
Later, learning to know him, a friendship had grown: odd, irregular; at times surprisingly deep. And at times marred, it seemed wantonly, by Lymond's excesses and his own lack of trust towards Richard which again and again had caused his older brother anger and misery.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Irregular relationships among a royal family and its adherents were a matter of course; often a matter of business; and only occasionally a matter of love.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I suppose the whole thing was highly irregular from a legal point of view, but it was great fun. And nobody was having more fun than the judge. It wasn't a real trial, you see, so he didn't have to worry about all the legal niceties.
~ Douglas Preston
It is irregular. I know it is irregular. Yes. But I have a high regard for human happiness. " "You have none for mine!" said Race.
~ Agatha Christie
The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.
~ Erik Prince
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.
~ Paul Verlaine
Aberrant is not abhorrent
~ Matthew Goldfinger
Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile, and sea serpents engulf every passing ship, and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.
~ David Garnett
As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.
~ Val McDermid
Night is irregular. What is not done in the daytime becomes possible at night: murder and sex and thought. Simple men are driven to early beds by tomorrow's daytime demands and by fear of the dark, and never dream of the irregular world outside. And all the while, a viscount and a spaceport baggage boy might be passing the night rolling bok ball in the city park. That's more than unusual -- that is irregular.
~ Alexei Panshin
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
~ William Falconer
The world is a very abnormal place.
~ Salman Rushdie
Everything was askew—this whole time on earth, his time for being alive, was aberrant. Three
~ Win Blevins
Renaissance artist Gregorio Comanini, has counseled the equivalent of "Live an ordinary, regular life so you can be irregular and brilliant in your creativity.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
~ Benedict of Nursia
and biographies of him have appeared at irregular intervals ever since. A search of "Buffalo Bill Cody
~ Robert A. Carter
And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about?--Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord,--quite an irregular thing!
~ Laurence Sterne
Whatever language Death speaks is not ours; and most of us spend no time acquiring the complex grammar, in which every verb is irregular and only the past tense obtains, until it is too late
~ Adam Roberts
The fog lying on Myrkvid Forest was dense and had an irregular shape, calling to mind a heap of whipped cream squeezed onto a cake by a lunatic cook.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski