Period Quotes

• The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• You don't tell a player you can't monitor your investments for a month. There's no way you're going to have a billion-dollar investment and never fail to monitor it for a period of time.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • Time
  • Player
  • Period

• I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Long
  • Today

• I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • School
  • English
  • Drama

• The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Done
  • Magic

• There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.

  

  Frank Drake
  • Time
  • Long
  • Magic

• The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

  

  Frederick Jackson Turner
  • American
  • History
  • Frontier

• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Community

• In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Today
  • Period
  • Depression

• Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Period
  • Theatre
  • Legend

• Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Poetry

• The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period.

  

  John Constable
  • Past
  • Present
  • Unknown

• The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Children
  • Single

• We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Period
  • Creators
  • Searchers

• I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Dad
  • Childhood
  • Years

• One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.

  

  Matthew Davis
  • Movie
  • Period

• Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

  

  Mark Bittman
  • King
  • Thanks
  • Collaboration

• Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

  

  James Mark Baldwin
  • Science
  • Period
  • Psychology

• For me, I tend to enjoy wearing any period costume. I love how fashion and clothing has changed and evolved through time.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Period

• Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Done
  • Home
  • Movie

• If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Question

• I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

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