Periods Quotes

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.

'The Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in.

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.

When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.