Periods Quotes

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

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Age
  • Darkness
  • Dawn

• Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.

  

  Dany Heatley
  • Country
  • Play
  • Chance

• [James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Important
  • Voice
  • Periods

• 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 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 don't have problems with nobody, period.

  

  Trick Daddy
  • Problem
  • Periods

• 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

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

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Film
  • Pieces
  • Deliberate

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

  

  Neil Postman
  • Children
  • School
  • Question

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

  

  Ashley Cole
  • Way
  • Deal
  • Periods

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  

  David Albert
  • World
  • Kind
  • Should

• 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

• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  

  Gerald Scarfe
  • War
  • Situation
  • Drawing

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

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Periods

• I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.

  

  Nick Zano
  • Romantic
  • Periods

• And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Age
  • Light
  • Body

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