“I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?'” ThinkingWantYearsLooksAgeGuyStuffPeriodsConcernBiggerYeahEvolveComedianThemeBullshitVariationCreepy Author:Patton Oswalt
“You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.” AgeSchoolStudentsPeriodsCompetitionSeriesDrivingQualifying Author:Mario Andretti
“I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.” YearsAgeUniverseFunPeriodsInstrumentsJazzGoldenBassGolden Age Author:Geddy Lee
“I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.” Has BeensAgeBitsPeriodsGayLateMarriedAgreePubertyDevelopersLeonardo Author:David Duchovny
“Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.” Has BeensMadeCareAgeBornDarkSeeingMonthsHeroDadPeriodsLowsMy DadStatementsErasHanging OutDaringI CareBowie Author:Trent Reznor
“When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.” KindBigsAgeTogetherFiguresBrotherPeriodsBottomTouringBowie Author:Trent Reznor
“The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.” WorldFirstsAgeFatherHalfAcceptingPrinciplesMiddlePeriodsSucceedArchitectureCirclesEmployedMiddle AgesGothic Book:The Works of Victor Hugo Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.” IfsWayHas BeensMadeDifferentAgeTodayActorsEnergyProcessPiecesModernPeriodsMirrorsMythRelevantCostumesCastlesBeardStimulusDifferent TimesStimulation Author:Joseph Fiennes
“... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.” LittlesAgeNaturalCenturyPossibilityPeriodsWarmDecadesIceMedieval19th CenturyReboundIce Age Author:Steven F. Hayward
“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.” WorldWayFirstsHumansWellsMeanWarAgeStrongLossGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsPeriodsElementsAreasOptimismRegardCrisisPatternsWell BeingWar Of The WorldsWorld War IScratchesAdvancingDisillusionFirst World WarLoss Of Faith Author:George Pattison
“To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.” DifferentAgeDesireSexPeriodsMonumentInbreds Author:Philip Johnson
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.” YearsLongIdeasAgeGivenCasesMiddlePeriodsMathematicsAbstractLong AgoNew IdeasMathematicianMiddle AgesGiven UpRenaissance Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.” ThinkingKindBigsAgeInfluencePeriodsRadicalRelatedPeppersSergeantsImpressionable Author:Tod Machover
“According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.” PeopleThinkingBelieveAgeSpiritualDarkPeriodsComfortLegsAwakeningNoiseDustCowsBalancedSerenityUncertainCagesNew AgeMessySpiritual AwakeningDecemberCosmologyWishful ThinkingApocalypticMirthGreat SpiritualKaliKali Yuga Author:Tom Robbins
“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
“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