Periods Quotes

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

What it takes to survive out here is order, I realize and say to myself, ‘Divide the day into equal periods. See this travel alarm? You get up, don your uniform, move according to the bell.’

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.