Period Quotes

You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

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.