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Quotes About Intermissions

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
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
~ Guy Debord
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~ Samuel Johnson
By recurrently standing back, assessing the daily events, taking time to correct the range of vision and evaluating what is authentic in life, we create space for reflection and spiritual regeneration. The construction of momentous and mindful intermissions allows us to update our identity and readjust our personality. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" )
~ Erik Pevernagie
I have also made many sketches for larger auditorium complexes to be sited near shopping centers, offering continuous music programs with intermissions every twenty or twenty-five minutes, For example, you might have a certain number of players appearing for a month-long season and giving performances at 10am, 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm daily, then the next month you would have a different team, playing my music, and so on, permanently. I have described this in detail many times.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.
~ la rochefoucauld vi
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
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