During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period. — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only:… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I… — George Michael Copy Share Image
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
The Nineties was such an incredible period. There was this real sense of community and such a uniqueness to it. There were… — Edward Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The greatest source of inspiration is hard work. Of course, I also believe in inspiration itself, but sometimes you have to provoke… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — David Barford Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion,… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I hate being a girl. Nearly all my friends are guys. I don't get along well with other woman. I have the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image