The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
Quotes about intermission (16 Quotes)
This is a very good play and surprisingly moving. I saw a reading and asked for the (production) rights at intermission -- and the second act was even better than the first.
Listen to people during intermission or leaving the theater, and you'll hear them relating their own horrific travel stories. The show captures a fun and painful time that is universal. Sadly, today this classic kids-in-the-station-wagon sort of vacation is becoming a thing of the past.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
The show is structured to get the audience back into the story after intermission. That takes about 10 minutes -- any show has a little fat it can get rid of, and we found most of ours after the intermission.
And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.
We did a show in San Antonio that was really amazing. The military helped us do a satellite to Baghdad where during intermission we had eight families seated in the front row and one by one they were able to communicate with their loved ones using the cameras to see each other. It was so emotional and nobody moved even though it was the intermission.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
I enjoy having fun with our history. You've got to have comedy, you've got to have drama and it all has to take place in a two and one-half hour period, with an intermission,
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
The Book 'So he settled on a method to help him succeed in his quest. He devised a little book and set it up in such a way that he could examine himself and mark his progress at the end of each day.' 'I entered upon the execution of this plan for self-examination and continued it, with occasional intermission, but I always carried my little book with me....' 'And it may be well my posterity should be informed that to this little artifice with the blessing of God, their ancestor owed the constant felicity of his life down to his seventy-ninth year in which this is written.... I hope, therefore, that some of my descendants may follow the example and reap the benefits.'
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing.
We had a way of doing it which was wonderful, ... One of us would go in and say we were looking for my mother. At the door, they said, 'Of course, go look.' We'd go in and open the exit door. Then we ran around the building, pushed the door open and came in. Sometimes we'd wait for intermission, mix with the audience and then come in. Except our clothes were not always acceptable.