Periods Quotes · Page 131

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…

— John Herschel

I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile…

— Joseph Stiglitz

You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people…

— George W. Bush

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with…

— Jim Jarmusch

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was…

— William Julius Wilson

The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.

— Lisa Marie Presley

Now, people can watch the entire first series over a period that would probably take you a couple of nights.

— Tim Roth

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

— Eli Broad

It's important that the disparities in the living conditions cannot be allowed in this digital period to be too marked. Each and…

— Angela Merkel

I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the…

— Laurel Nakadate

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

— Jack Canfield

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

— Tony Curtis

What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like…

— Sebastian Vettel

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

— Marshall McLuhan

Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were…

— Gretl Braun

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period…

— Nikki Grimes

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

— Alix Kates Shulman

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment.…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry,…

— Chris Crutcher

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

— Mel Gibson

[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a…

— Van Morrison

I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.

— Nick Zano

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't…

— Cheryl Mendelson