Quotes About Period

#1. Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth's history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain't so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun' while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.

L.T. Vargus

#2. Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again?

Jennifer E. Smith

#3. At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#4. Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Tom Waits

#5. But every period has its virtues, even a time of turmoil. . . . When

Amor Towles

#6. Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

Lawrence Solomon

#7. I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!

Bethany Cosentino

#8. Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Charlie Sheen

#9. For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

Damian Lewis

#10. We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even right now, in this negative period, are holding pretty strong, because people want a leader that's going to make this country great again and have a strong economy.

Jeff Sessions

#11. I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

Mike Ross

#12. There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

#13. I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

Tennessee Williams

#14. I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.

Rupert Evans

#15. Childhood is the best period of life...

Ray

#16. There was a period just after the inevitability of ruin hove into view and just before it smashed into the hull of your life that was the closest to pure freedom anybody got.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#17. During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

James Cronin

#18. I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.

Bipasha Basu

#19. The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Philip Warren Anderson

#20. What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow.

Rose McIver

#21. Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday ...

Walt Kelly

#22. Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

Guillermo Del Toro

#23. Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Sevyn Streeter

#24. Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

Marie-Luise Gothein

#25. They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

Robert McNamara

#26. If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

Buzz Aldrin

#27. When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Beck

#28. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.

Gina Greenlee

#29. I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

Ron Perlman

#30. We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Jean Cocteau

#31. Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

Adam Davidson

#32. Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality.

Bill Gates

#33. The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

#34. I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.

Victoria Chang

#35. There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

John Lasseter

#36. Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

Stef Penney

#37. How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Kurt Vonnegut

#38. But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

Brent Scowcroft

#39. I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

Martha Quinn

#40. The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

Jim Webb

#41. 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

#42. I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

Ehud Olmert

#43. I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

Linus Roache

#44. What businesses really need is to build connections that last, connections that transcend a single product or marketing campaign, connections that span an extended period.

Kim Garst

#45. Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

Isaac Asimov

#46. Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Hugh Hefner

#47. In the period of dictatorship, surrounded on all sides by enemies, we sometimes manifested unnecessary leniency and unnecessary softheartedness.
Krylenko,
speech at the Promparty trial

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#48. Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

Steven Hall

#49. I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

Ron Dellums

#50. I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson

#51. We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Ethan Coen

#52. And there is nothing you can do to make God love you less. Love is not something God does. It is who God is. And because of who he is, God loves you. Period.

Craig Groeschel

#53. Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.

Johan Rockstrom

#54. I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

Lawrence Kasdan

#55. And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

Alanis Morissette

#56. King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Tony Blair

#57. Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Alix Kates Shulman

#58. When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel.

Amy Cohen

#59. The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms.

David Novak

#60. There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

Betsy Lerner

#61. I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

Juliet Landau

#62. There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

Jason Reeves

#63. During the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews appear to have been confined within the narrow compass of the present life.

Edward Gibbon

#64. For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most
remote from it?

Blaise Pascal

#65. I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Pierre Cardin

#66. You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.

Feist

#67. Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

Chris Evans

#68. I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

Carla Gugino

#69. What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

Deb Caletti

#70. I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

Nat Turner

#71. It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Josh Lucas

#72. The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Sarah Dessen

#73. If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say ... "I don't care what happens"

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#74. For forms existing in larger numbers will always have a better chance, within any given period, of presenting further favourable variations for natural selection to seize on, than will the rarer forms which exist in lesser numbers.

Charles Darwin

#75. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey

#76. All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

Florence Nightingale

#77. No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#78. When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Kevin Hart

#79. Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.

Arjen Robben

#80. It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

Julius Caesar

#81. Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did. Our

Margaret Atwood

#82. During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

Anita Hill

#83. Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.

Mark Batterson

#84. The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Geezer Butler

#85. My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma,
Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen.
Question mark, you pregnant?
Oh you're not? I love you, period.

Chino XL

#86. If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

Donnie Wahlberg

#87. Remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be - a period or an exclamation point.

Richard Paul Evans

#88. Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.

Ted Cruz

#89. Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

Jack Bruce

#90. Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

Donald Evans

#91. And no one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.

John Kasich

#92. Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Kiana Tom

#93. I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#94. The first period of excitement, which began with the Dartmouth meeting, was later described by John McCarthy (the event's main organizer) as the "Look, Ma, no hands!" era.

Nick Bostrom

#95. It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#96. Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.

Robertson Davies

#97. I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped. There's no time period for it. That's the type of music I want to make.

Tessanne Chin

#98. Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Bill Buckner

#99. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

Mads Mikkelsen

#100. One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Yo-Yo Ma