You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation),… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest-recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
“Menstruation annoys the most females who lack the desire to someday fall pregnant.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several… — Jerzy Kukuczka Copy Share Image
I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image