Periods Quotes · Page 21

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

— Grant Tinker

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

— Edward Hoagland

Women and their periods... It's such an ovary action...

— Green Monk

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

— Cathy Crimmins

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

— James Hervey

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

— Megan Alexander

Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

— Jessica Biel

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy…

— Martin Cruz Smith

I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the…

— Chris Tucker

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

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning,…

— Anonymous

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to…

— Charles Stanley

The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our…

— Elias Lyman Magoon

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

— Patrick Swayze

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the…

— Tom Wolfe

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for…

— Theodore White

I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period…

— Scout Niblett

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it…

— Anna Quindlen

The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does…

— Fernando J. Corbato

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in…

— Isaac D'Israeli

A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period…

— Adolf Hitler

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I…

— Fergie

And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are…

— William Shatner

I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia.…

— Stuart Chase

Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that…

— Swami Vivekananda

[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it…

— Alan Bennett

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'…

— Alice Miller

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about]…

— Paul McCartney

During the current period of health care development in our country, improvement of the management quality is becoming increasingly important. This is…

— Veronika Skvortsova

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on…

— Josh McDowell

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

— William Faulkner

I was never hit as a child. I don't believing in hitting, period.

— Shannen Doherty

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

— Austin Butler

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

— Drew Barrymore

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

— Roger Ebert

Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is

— Lily Allen

I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

— Myles Munroe