Periods Quotes · Page 8

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

— Benjamin Walker

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

— Coco Chanel

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

— A. P. Herbert

Now there's a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. Who can stay mad that long?

— Emo Philips

Periods are like going to bed on white sheets, then waking up on the flag of Japan.

— Anonymous

“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”

— Isaac Babel

Dear Periods, the only reason I like you is because you're a sign that I'm not pregnant.

— Anonymous

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not…

— Ed Rollins

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like…

— Christina Ricci

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed…

— Donald Trump

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is…

— Audre Lorde

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

— George Clooney

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period…

— Steve Reich

Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a…

— N.J. Berrill

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard…

— Elvis Costello

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent.…

— Chris Prentiss

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's…

— Bill O'Reilly

Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical,…

— Conor Oberst

There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and…

— George Carlin

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so…

— Robert Reich

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is…

— Dalai Lama

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be…

— Aristotle

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not…

— William Eckhardt

I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work…

— Robert Kennedy

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of…

— Albert Camus

Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through…

— Maria Montessori

Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had…

— G. Edward Griffin

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not…

— Bertrand Russell

There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.

— Judd Apatow

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

— Kathleen Wynne

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

— Jeff Bezos

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

— Peter L. Berger

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

— Ella Baker

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

— Courteney Cox