Top 30 Periodical Quotes
#1. If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#2. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#3. By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again
and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
Mark Twain
#5. I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.
C.S. Lewis
#6. There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
John Mayer
#7. The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions to human memories.
Frederick G. Kilgour
#8. What happened?" Lillian asked as Daisy walked into the Marsden parlor. She was reclining on the settee with a periodical. "You look as if you've been run over by a carriage."
"I had an encounter with an ill-mannered pig, actually.
Lisa Kleypas
#9. The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Margaret Fuller
#10. Your system was liable to periodical convulsions ... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
Edward Bellamy
#11. How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical ... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and sleeps again!
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#13. I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.
Robert Anton Wilson
#14. It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#15. If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is
a periodical breaking out, we suppose
a sort of spring rash.
Charles Dickens
#16. I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Francesca Lia Block
#17. Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
Wallace D. Wattles
#18. The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
Helena Blavatsky
#19. We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.
Graham Fellows
#20. I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.
Frank Quattrone
#21. A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
Karl Marx
#22. What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
Thomas Carlyle
#23. Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
Chris Ware
#25. If I imagine the genesis of a novelist in the form of an exemplary tale, a "myth," that genesis looks to me like a conversion story: Saul becoming Paul; the novelist being born from the ruins of his lyrical world.
Milan Kundera
#26. It seems those most likely to miss God's work in the world are those most convinced they know exactly what to look for, the ones who expect God to play by the rules.
Rachel Held Evans
#27. My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
Mae West
#29. Please don't leave me. Not again. Please. It hurts too much to be without you. I don't know how.
Helena Hunting
