Periods Quotes

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

I would like to get nominated for a Grammy, but I don't set out to do that anymore, though, 'cause I never felt like I got my just due in the business, period anyway.

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

I'm curious about life, period.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.

I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.

We're here for such a short period of time.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.

I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!