Periods famous quotes
05-17-2025
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If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.
-- A. C. Green -
Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
-- Alan Parker -
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
-- Albert Brooks -
And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.
-- Alex Jones -
I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.
-- Alexis Bledel -
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.
-- Amy Harmon -
I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
-- Andrew Gold -
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
-- Andy Summers -
During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
-- Anita Hill -
If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good. If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.
-- Antonio Gotto -
I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
-- Art Modell -
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
-- Asghar Farhadi -
I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.
-- Austin Butler -
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
-- Avicii -
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
-- Beck -
Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.
-- Benjamin Walker -
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
-- Bill James -
I bought a railroad during this period of time.
-- Bill Janklow -
I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
I would not want to live in any other period,
-- Billy Graham -
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
-- Brené Brown -
As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.
-- Brian Helgeland -
The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.
-- Brian Tracy -
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
-- Bryan Cranston -
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
-- Carrie Vaughn -
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
-- Cary Elwes -
I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.
-- Catherine Martin -
I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.
-- Catherine Stock -
I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.
-- Chris Messina -
I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.
-- Clemence Poesy -
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
-- Connie Willis -
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
-- Constantin Stanislavski -
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.
-- Dalai Lama -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
-- Dan Fogler -
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
-- Dan Quayle -
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.
-- Daniel Clowes -
It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.
-- Daniel Johns -
One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
-- David Oyelowo -
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
-- Dinah Sheridan -
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
-- E. B. White -
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
-- Edmund Wilson -
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
-- Edward Hoagland -
AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
-- Edward Whitacre, Jr. -
After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.
-- Elizabeth Bisland -
I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.
-- Emilie de Ravin -
Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time.
-- Eric Bana -
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
-- Eric Bana -
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
-- Eric Kandel -
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.
-- Ezra Koenig -
I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
-- Faith Hill -
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
-- Francis Collins -
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
-- Frank Carlucci -
They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.
-- Frankie Avalon -
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
-- Gail Porter -
I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
-- Gary Oldman -
When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.
-- Gaspard Ulliel -
It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
-- George Clooney -
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
-- George Clooney -
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
-- George Crumb -
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.
-- George Michael -
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
-- Gillian Flynn -
Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
-- Gracie Allen -
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
-- Guy Debord -
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.
-- Guy Pearce -
Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.
-- Harry Reid -
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
-- Henri Nouwen -
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.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
-- Hu Shih -
It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.
-- Hugh Masekela -
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
-- Irwin Shaw -
The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
-- Ja Rule -
A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
-- Jacques Santer -
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
-- James G. Stavridis -
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
-- James Gunn -
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
-- James Mark Baldwin -
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
-- James Mark Baldwin -
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
-- James Nasmyth -
Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.
-- Jayne Ann Krentz -
I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.
-- Jean Louis -
There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.
-- Jennifer Nettles -
THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
-- Jenny Holzer -
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
-- Jerry Saltz -
Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.
-- Jessica Biel -
A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange,
-- Jiang Zemin
