Periods Quotes

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

You're not surviving if you're not on social media, period.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

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.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how to keep it rolling for as long as you can.

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.

I would not want to live in any other period.

Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.