YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time.… — Tony Vincent Copy Share Image
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of… — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person… — Pandora Boxx Copy Share Image
A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it… — Stephen Halbrook Copy Share Image
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty,… — Robert Cochrane Copy Share Image
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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