Top 1200 Time Period Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Period dramas have their own challenges. One must work hard to ensure that you don't just embrace the character you are playing, you also have to understand the smaller nuances of the period to deliver an authentic experience.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.

The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.

I like the idea that I can make a big difference to a startup in a short period of time.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable.

Any time you do tax reform, you really need to have a transition period.

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

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

Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.

In fact, because I am very time conscious and want to make the most of every moment, I make it a practice to remove my watch before I light the candles as if to suggest that for this brief period, my life must transcend time.

There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from New York, which had been incredible to me professionally. I couldn't get arrested in this town. There was a lot of doubt and fear that crept in, and boy, did insecurity stick her foot up in it. There were many obstacles that were overcome during that very dark period - creative, financial, emotional, and spiritual - and I'm here, standing, stronger than ever.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who has been here maybe for some long period of time. Amnesty is not on the table period. There will be no amnesty in the United States. We're a country of law and the idea that we're going to tell people that somehow or another that that's all forgiven is not going to happen. How we deal with them is a conversation. I don't know if I know all the answers. I want to talk to the American people.

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

It has always been my ambition to be captain of Wales over a sustained period of time.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

I like 'Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period' podcast.

Yes I believe detoxing and fasting can be very healthy for a period of time.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

'Power' came in August. February 2014, 'Empire' ended. That whole time, I was like, 'You know what, let me just take a break from this and focus on music' so in that time period, I did my whole EP. Got the single 'Lotto.'

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

Sleep deprivation over quite a short period of time can make you paranoid.

I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.

We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don't tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.

Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king!

I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.