Periods Quotes · Page 143

There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to…

— Paul Reiser

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one…

— A. J. Liebling

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be…

— Dan Marino

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the…

— Harry S. Truman

Over a period of about year-and-a-half, Malcolm X and [Alex] Haley agreed to work with each other. They met usually after a…

— Manning Marable

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them…

— Denny Hamlin

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one…

— Tim Wise

The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of…

— Alan Bersin

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All strikers go through periods when you score goals and don't score goals.

— Darren Bent

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a…

— Bertrand Russell

I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.

— Gerald R. Ford

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

— Al Gore

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

— Rico Lebrun

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

— Susan Holloway Scott

As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had…

— John Brown Gordon

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

— Ne-Yo

I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.

— Rona Ambrose

I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you…

— Robin Williams

When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis…

— Thabo Mbeki

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the…

— Bertrand Russell

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

— Bela Bartok

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I…

— Brendan Fraser

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend,…

— Dennis Christopher