“The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.” AmericaVisionProductsPeriodsParadiseSixty Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“It's important that the disparities in the living conditions cannot be allowed in this digital period to be too marked. Each and every one must be given an opportunity to participate, which is why Germany's fate in many ways depends on the firmness of its alliance with NATO, with the European Union.” WayImportantOpportunityGivenFateConditionsDependsPeriodsUnionsGermanyDigitalAlliancesEuropean UnionNatoDisparityFirmnessLiving Conditions Author:Angela Merkel
“I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.” ThinkingPeriodsTransformationProfoundTransition Author:Angela Merkel
“I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.” WayShouldKindLittlesWholeSeemsPiecesPeriodsJacketsWardrobeCloaksHipsterBeatnikTurtlenecksOlafCount Olaf Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“Every actor has periods of their life that are a little less busy than others, and that was just a time when I needed that. And to be back on a sitcom stage, with Julia [ Louis-Dreyfus], was really, really fun.” LittlesActorsFunStageNeededPeriodsBusySitcomJulia Author:Eric McCormack
“Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that he prepared us to go onstage. It was different than anything I've done and it was a different way of being directed, so I tried to take my different experiences of these directors and give those to my actors.” WayGivingDifferentDoneActorsWeekSonPeriodsDirectorsPreparedEightEnjoyedDifferent WaysMy SonBroadwayRehearsalDifferent Experiences Author:Katie Holmes
“I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.” StuffPeriodsComplainingGirlfriendPlumbing Author:Carrie Fisher
“I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.” ThinkingI CanPeriodsMy FavoriteArenaBonding Author:Carrie Fisher
“My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?"” KnowsDifferentAsksAnswersBrotherPeriodsMy BrotherInterpretationGenesisKeepersYour BrotherCainAbelDifferent Gods Author:Elie Wiesel
“The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.” DoeEndsMatterPeriodsMarkSentencesInterpretationBiblicalPunctuationQuestion MarkPunctuation Marks Author:Elie Wiesel
“A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.” LongCoursesPeriodsMealsLong Periods Of Time Author:Thomas Keller
“At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.” YearsKindPersonsAgeKnownPeriodsSeventies Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.” WayHumansPersonsLongMightRightsPeriodsConcernHuman RightsPassionateRevengeBest WayTortureBeastDefenders Author:Yanar Mohammed
“Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.” PeopleKindYoungSawsCenturyMissingSonPeriodsMoonMy SonVehicleBicycle1930s Author:Sergio Leone
“Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.” Has BeensTwoFactsTogetherSongGirlHurtWrittenSeeingPeriodsGuiltBunchHurt MeBallads Author:George Michael
“I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].” FeltHurtPeriodsAlbumsThemeLooking BackAnother Time Author:George Michael
“I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsDifferentMightCoursesTeacherPeriodsTerribleGender Author:Jen Kirkman
“We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.” WorldMayWarEndsColdPeriodsMajorsTensionCooperationStabilityRelativeCold WarHostility Author:John Burroughs
“Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.” WarRightsAdventurePeriodsCivil RightsLiberalismAnti WarFbi Author:Nat Hentoff
“We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.” PeopleLongPeriodsAmendmentsFourthAccustomedFourth Amendment Author:Nat Hentoff
“First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.” ThinkingMenFirstsWellsLooksHeartPersonsStillsMightBlackTermTakenWifeImpossibleMovementMy HeartPeriodsWarmSeparationPsychologicalSplits Author:Malcolm X
“My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.” PeopleIfsAgeDarkKnownPeriodsEuropeEastAtmosphereDark AgesRenaissanceContention Author:Malcolm X
“That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.” IfsMenLooksHas BeensTodayValuesWhiteLevelsClassMiddlePeriodsStandardsMiddle ClassWhite ManIdentifyingAdoptingValue Systems Author:Malcolm X
“Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.” Has BeensArtSometimesTodayLastsCultureFightingDifferencesPeriodsAchievementTraditionJewDenyAbandonObligedArt Of LivingGreat AchievementOther CulturesIdiosyncrasies Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".” HardFoundBornPoorRichAliveAwarenessPeriodsCracksNutsDemise Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.” IfsYearsLooksWholeCoursesActorsBalancePeriodsBalancedWhole YearDown Time Author:Elaine Cassidy
“What I did was go into the studio and make music that I love. Make music that when you hear it, it feels good. Whether it was urban inspired, dance inspired, HipHop inspired or it just feels good period.” FeelsPeriodsInspiredStudiosFeel GoodUrban Author:Kelly Rowland
“The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life.” PeopleCoursesIndividualSocialPeriodsCurrentsPursuitConsumptionSuperficialParticipationFashionableFittingHerdsSocial LifeBewilderedRegressionSuperficial Things Author:Noam Chomsky
“The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.” Has BeensLastsGrowthFiveCenturyPeriodsProjectsEuropeProsperityDecadesFrustration20th CenturyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn't quite fit.” ThinkingLooksTwoWarStatesReasonJobsCertainNationsUnitedUnited StatesCenturyCreationPeriodsFitPatternsAlliesHistorian20th CenturySequenceTwo Nations Author:Steven Knight
“With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingCharacterForgetPiecesPeriodsContemporaryThings To Do Author:Steven Knight
“Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.” MenWritingPersonsBookPeriodsWoundsRighteousGemsNephewRighteous ManFavorite Person Author:Jeff Pearlman
“Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.” WellsWarArtistModernPeriodsPostsPost WarExistentialist Author:Tilda Swinton
“As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.” ThinkingHumansLongSaidMatterHardBigsNationsPeriodsConsequenceResourcesMajorityPopulationPracticalsHistoricHuman HistoryChunksLong Periods Of Time Author:Barack Obama
“I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.” PeopleTryingChildrenHomeWifeAchievePolicyPeriodsRight NowLettersSickSellsMy WifeSavedMy ChildrenMakersPolicy Makers Author:Barack Obama
“[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty.” RealUseGovernmentGamesHouseStuffProcessLibertyWatchesPeriodsConstitutionSeriesReal LifeCardsBranchesEmpiresExecutivesAmendmentsThronesDiminishStatutesExecutive BranchConstitutional AmendmentsHouse Of CardsBoardwalksBoardwalk Empire Author:Edward Snowden
“The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.” HumansLongPeriodsEvolveVisuals Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.” NeedsBelieveTodayLawLevelsInformationPeriodsDon't BelieveBroadsArbitraryTransparencyBlanketTime PeriodsExemption Author:Chelsea Manning
“Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.” ReasonComedyPeriodsBritishAccents Author:Toks Olagundoye
“Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which Iran could control, which Russia could control, which Syria could control, and which we and our coalition friends could control - if one man would merely make it known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long-term future; he'll help manage Syria out of this mess and then go off into the sunset, as most people do after a period of public life. If he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to management.” PeopleIfsMenWorldLongEndsHelpingMovingTermKnownViolencePeriodsLet MeManagementRussiaManageMessLong TermSunsetIranOne ManSyriaPublic LifeCoalitionsCeasefire Author:John F. Kerry
“The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.” AbilityFocusTalentPeriodsExerciseTasksWorkplaceUnhealthyHegemonyExtroverts Author:Kevin Drum
“I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life” StatesBlackStudentsInvolvedPeriodsActivityMembersUnionsExtraordinaryStrikesCommitteesSan FranciscoCampus Author:Danny Glover
“When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.” HardWholeGovernmentJobsLostResultsMillionsEconomyGrowingPeriodsCrisisTradeSouthFinancialChinaPartnersFactorsChineseAffectedSouth AfricaGlobal EconomyFinancial Crisis Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.” YearsWholeFocusPeriodsBandProjectsLateYears AgoMy FavoriteVersionsHolidayDebutBrussels Author:Jose James
“I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really midpoint, but a period of her career where she really still had her voice. She had that deep wisdom that we've come to associate her with. To me, that's her at the height of her powers.” WayStillsBeautifulVoiceCareersPeriodsSingingHeightHolidayAssociates Author:Jose James
“I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.” IfsBelieveCareI BelievePeriodsHealth CareEntitledAdequate Author:Joe Biden
“It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.” ThinkingWayLittlesWarCulturePassionFunPossibilityPeriodsIntentionSouthEnthusiasmCivil WarFascinatingCelebrationComedicMisguided Author:Ed Helms
“Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsLongFilmUsedFivePeriodsHarry PotterPottersExhausting Author:John Hurt
“On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.” EndsHandsLightFilmPeriodsSpreadTunnelsExhaustingLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:John Hurt