Periods Quotations

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.

I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just for the Middle Ages, but all periods of history. My favorites are medieval, Elizabethan, and Georgian; however, I've written stories set in periods as early as ancient Rome, right up to the Victorian era.

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that's easy or not easy... but that's a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don't run evenly.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.

My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I have a lot of vintage, so my style is pretty eclectic of different time periods and styles. I would describe it as comfortable, creative, and vintage.

My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

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

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.