Period Quotes

• Most actresses have multiple commitments, from films to endorsements, that require us to maintain a particular look over a long period. Hence, there is never an opportunity to experiment with hair, so we just settle for a neutral look that we can work with across projects.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Work
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• 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
  • Time
  • Black
  • Space

• 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

• I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

  

  James Laughlin
  • High
  • Poetry
  • Period

• When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

  

  Bill James
  • People
  • Period

• I don't necessarily think fighters should fight killers every time, but at some point in time, fighters should be fighting the best in their division, period.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Period

• I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Long
  • Business
  • Movie

• I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, 'Now is that political or social?' He said, 'I feed you.' Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • Good
  • Political

• It's always a challenge to shoot a period film and not have it look like you hit the tea stain button in post.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Always
  • Challenge
  • Look

• I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Tired

• About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

  

  John S. Watson
  • World
  • Heart
  • Growth

• I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Problem

• Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Night
  • Period
  • Grind

• I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time
  • Period

• The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.

  

  Kevin Alejandro
  • Comedy
  • Romantic
  • Text

• I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

  

  Zach Braff
  • History
  • Black
  • Culture

• It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.

  

  Alan Yang
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Famous

• There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

  

  Louis Jourdan
  • Long
  • Important
  • Period

• 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

• I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.

  

  Lee Bermejo
  • People
  • Guy
  • Period

• I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • Period

• Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Important
  • Practice

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