Periods Quotes

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

I wouldn't take nothin' but a Ford: F-O-R-D, period. Ain't nothin' like a Ford. I wouldn't drive a Chevrolet 'cause I can't spell it.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

Nobody has the right to humiliate someone else, period.

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.