Period Quotes

• Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Remember
  • Drama
  • Pride

• In order to excel at anything, there are always hurdles, obstacles, or challenges one must get past. It's what bodybuilders call the pain period. Those who push themselves, and are willing to face pain, exhaustion, humiliation, rejection, or worse, are the ones who become champions. The rest are left on the sidelines.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Past
  • Pain
  • Rest

• I support high academic standards. Period.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • High
  • Support
  • Period

• Historical Underdosing: To living a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Period
  • Addiction

• I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

  

  John Otway
  • Career
  • Period

• I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Stop
  • Justice

• It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Words
  • Period

• If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Skill

• There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Die
  • Period

• The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
  • Good
  • Period

• In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Israel
  • Agreement
  • Jewish

• 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
  • Period

• I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I started getting more energy and wasn't so tired, then I would hit the gym.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • World
  • Energy
  • Baby

• I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I'd love to do a period piece.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Period

• 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

• Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • People
  • Writing
  • Period

• So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Girl
  • Period
  • Television

• She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Women
  • She
  • Marriage

• I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Period

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