Quotes About Intermittent

If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.

The only thing worse than an Aussie or Kiwi intonation is its intermittent use. When it's Auckland talking, or Melbourne, fine. But when a snatch of downunder drawl erupts from the mouth of a Euro, it's like blood in your urine.

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Et il est compliqué de vivre avec un coeur qui ne bat que de temps à autre.

Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals.

luces intermitentes. Se sintió aliviado al llegar al puente Carquinez. Una

learned late in life to obey my wife's commands without question, but even though I learned I only do it intermittently. I live in terror of her judgments but I rarely take the next step of following her instructions. In my consciousness my wife is a brooding, metaphysical omnipresence who has saved my life.

I'll sometimes go a week or two without tweeting, and then when I'm in the mood, tweet loads, and clog up people's in-boxes. It's a moment when you feel like sharing something.

As a child, I was embarrassed by my dads effusive episodes, but I suppose I got used to living with someone who was intermittently sad.

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

No one says always or never. Everyone says sometimes.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

The scholarly term is Intermittent Variable Rewards. Which simply means that unpredictability has great power to addict. Because we have an innate evolutionary compulsion to know.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

'Freedom dieters' often do well with programs that incorporate pretty basic rules, like intermittent fasting - simply don't eat for X period of time, then eat healthy foods. Very simple.

I don't eat two days a week. And people are fascinated by it, but it works. If you cut two days of food out of your life you will lose weight.

Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that's what we all want.

Occasionally

Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.