To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really… — Gary Barlow Copy Share Image
The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are… — David Berg Copy Share Image
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
My life don't make a lot of sense… It don't make sense that I go around the country killing people. Period. It… — Tommy Lynn Sells Copy Share Image
Dear Men, If we have to have periods every month, you guys should be kicked in the balls once a month. Sincerely,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you… — Sunil Gavaskar Copy Share Image
I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans. — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror. — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at… — Dennis Bergkamp Copy Share Image
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image