Period Quotes

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

We know that Libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. And there are many courageous Libyans who bear the scars of that battle.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

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

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.