Period Quotes
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Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.
Margaret Chan
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I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
Duncan Jones
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There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
Rick Boucher
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
Chris Hughes
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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
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
Akio Morita
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We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
Angus Deaton
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
Auguste Renoir
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
Kate Beckinsale
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There has been a 12-year period where there has been no disciplinary action.
J. M. Roberts
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If you can improve your franchise, even if you're doing well, you're going to make that move. You just are - at least I am. It's about winning and winning the right way and trying to sustain success over a large period of time.
Jim Irsay
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To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.
John Mayall
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It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.
Zak Penn
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Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin
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Great music is great music, period.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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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
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We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Dalai Lama
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I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
Andrew Gold
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I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.
Lea Salonga