Periods Quotes · Page 6

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

— Megan Alexander

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

— Martin Puryear

What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and…

— John F. Kennedy

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques…

— Tom Berenger

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which…

— Walter Benjamin

I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream…

— Desiree Akhavan

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

— John Lothrop Motley

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable…

— Carl Jung

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of…

— Andy Warhol

I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the…

— Jack Black

I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The…

— Helen Fielding

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring…

— Samuel P. Huntington

As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up…

— Frederick Lenz

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature…

— Mary Karr

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds…

— Nina Fedoroff

Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such…

— Peter Bradshaw

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that…

— Rick Boucher

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if…

— V. S. Naipaul

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke…

— Vaclav Havel

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a…

— Anonymous

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to…

— George Orwell

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow…

— Billy Corgan

Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that…

— Jamie Dimon

Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out…

— Bill Gates

Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't…

— John Updike