Period Quotes - page 68

With the sedentarisation of people they began to form an idea of the area that they lived in, its extension and its boundaries, which were mostly determined by nature and the feature of the landscape. Clans and tribes that had settled in a certain area and lived there for a long period of time. (Abdullah Öcalan)
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level. View quote
Nick Cave
There is information showing that in the 1993-1994 period bin Laden began to work with Sudan and Iraq to acquire a CBRN capability for al Qaeda. View quote
Michael Scheuer
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920. View quote
James McAvoy
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now. View quote
Hugh Hefner
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. View quote
Al Gore
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. (Steven Wright)
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. View quote
Steve Jobs
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. View quote
Jonas Salk
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period. View quote
George Tenet
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next. View quote
Cesare Pavese
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. View quote
Bill James
I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period. View quote
Claudette Colbert
America's greatness is built on the principles of liberty and preserved by the men and women who wear the uniform to defend it. As I have said on numerous occasions, a religious test for entering our country is not reflective of these fundamental values. I reject it. Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice. Captain Khan was one such brave example. His sacrifice-and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan-should always be honored. Period. View quote
Paul Ryan
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period. View quote
Alan Moore
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. (Joseph Addison)
People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard. View quote
Elvis Costello
We all reflect the world we live in. Even if you make a period film, it will reflect your times. View quote
David Lynch
I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is. View quote
Rupert Everett
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. View quote
E. O. Wilson