Periods Quotes · Page 116

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period…

— Steve Reich

How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the…

— Hillary Clinton

I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.

— Holly Madison

Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon…

— Wislawa Szymborska

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could…

— Calvin Coolidge

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not…

— David Hockney

One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of…

— John Diefenbaker

Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world…

— Paul Einzig

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies,…

— Maria Montessori

I'm working from home a lot. That's very unusual because I'm away a lot, sometimes working on the other side of the…

— Andy Serkis

It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during…

— Ha-Joon Chang

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across…

— Isaac Asimov

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest…

— Anonymous

I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the…

— Ethan Hawke

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest…

— Steven Hall

Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early…

— Augustus Napier

Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and…

— William Redington Hewlett

I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not…

— Emmitt Smith

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…

— Jean Paul

Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is…

— Mike Hebert

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff,…

— Rupert Everett

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they…

— Benjamin Franklin

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great…

— Walter Annenberg

The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in…

— Ernest Rutherford