Period Quotes

• I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Period

• When you have girlfriends, and you get into it, and you share your flaws, and you're like, 'Oh my God. I almost had my period all over that chair,' or whatever. That's how we connect, right?

  

  Lennon Parham
  • God
  • Period

• If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

  

  Van Morrison
  • School
  • Cool
  • Rock

• I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

  

  Anson Mount
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • Age
  • Period
  • Famous

• 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
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Period

• Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Quality

• When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • Time
  • Tired
  • Recovery

• 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
  • Time
  • Period

• experiences of this period had two very marked effects on my opinions and character. In the first place, they led me to adopt a theory of life, very unlike that on which I had before acted, and having much in common with what at that time I certainly had never heard of, the anti-self-consciousness theory of Carlyle.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Character

• I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

  

  Joe Flanigan
  • Period
  • Boat

• I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Period

• I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.

  

  James Lasdun
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Time
  • Done
  • Period

• I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Life
  • Why
  • Period

• Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Period

• People often say I started to become too outspoken after a certain period. It’s all because of the Internet. If we didn’t have this technology I would be same as everybody else. I couldn’t really amplify my voice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Technology
  • Period

• I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Player
  • Period
  • Rugby

• Without a doubt, the majority of historical period dramas tend to be told from a certain perspective. At least in America, black people have some visibility in period dramas, although it's usually in the form of slaves or servitude.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• 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
  • Time
  • Home
  • Movie

• As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Time
  • Space
  • Water

• 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
  • Period

• Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?

  

  Pieter Zeeman
  • Period

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