Periods Quotes

• If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover to the ten-year is only 35 basis points, and 25 basis points into the 30-year - it's a fairly small spillover effect.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • Looks
  • Average
  • Increase

• I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Remember
  • Independence
  • Months

• I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Voice
  • Periods
  • Pulling

• I don't have problems with nobody, period.

  

  Trick Daddy
  • Problem
  • Periods

• At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

  

  George Washington
  • Existence
  • Citizens
  • Faults

• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Children
  • School
  • Question

• My parents are amazing, but when I was like, “Well, I’m going to be an actress,” and they’re all doctors, that wasn’t the best and easiest thing to do, you know. So I’m sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn’t telling them exactly what I was doing. But I think that’s going to evolve.

  

  Reshma Shetty
  • Doctors
  • Actresses
  • Periods

• I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

  

  Will Forte
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Advantage

• In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

  

  Michelle Dockery
  • Fashion
  • Celebration
  • Periods

• When I think of a video game, I think about how I'd love to have Buddy Rogers vs. Ric Flair, something like that, where you can wrestle these Legends against each other from different periods and stuff.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Love
  • Video Games
  • Legends

• Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Facts
  • Might
  • Example

• The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Age
  • Darkness
  • Dawn

• The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.

  

  William Buckland
  • Revolution
  • Creation
  • Globes

• Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Plans

• Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Film
  • Pieces
  • Deliberate

• It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Children
  • Real
  • Fun

• I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Book

• I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Song
  • Realizing
  • Interviews

• It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Periods

• I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.

  

  Greg Lake
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Chores

• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • People
  • Problem
  • Something

• I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Pursuit

• In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Church
  • Belief
  • Contact

• My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Music
  • Young
  • Teenager

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