I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them… — Chaim Potok 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
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies.… — Colleen Atwood 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
When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it… — Dave Genn Copy Share Image
“There's nothing sexier than a girl who's like, 'I know who FDR is, I know about the New Deal, I'm going to… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through… — Sonny Rollins 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… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I had a period in my life, maybe a decade or so, in which I was involved in that kind of thing,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded?… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
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