Period Quotes

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.

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

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

My thing is music, period.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.