“Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.” ThinkingIdeasChallengesGonePeriodsSimplicityComplicatedLooking BackChallenging Myself Author:Tim Walker
“Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.” LooksArtGonePeriodsFutureAppearanceRevival Author:David Hockney
“I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.” WayGonePeriods Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.” ThinkingKnowsLongUseFormMy OwnGonePeriodsBreathsPunctuation Book:The Life of an Ordinary Woman Source: The Life of an Ordinary Woman
“Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.” LongBitsGonePeriodsLonely Author:Rufus Sewell
“I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.” YearsWould BeLastsHouseWonderGoneForeverWeekBabyPeriodsBirdDecidedBusyCaringCamping Book:Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover Source: Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover
“I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.” GoneMonthsPeriodsPerformancesSevenEightLive Performance Author:Johnny Ramistella
“I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.” MeanGonePeriodsGlobalizationObscurityMeaninglessnessCoherenceIntervening Author:Robert Reich
“It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.” MenProblemEarthWaterInterestingGonePeriodsMountainElementsOceanCrossesPerfectionTrainSurfaceContactPlanesAviationPredictionsMachineryTime PassesAloofBeauty Of The Earth Author:Charles Lindbergh
“The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.” WayUseProcessGoneGoes OnAmountPeriodsProgramOrganizationDrinkingHeavyBeerPotCocaineCokeGetting High Author:George Carlin
“In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.” IfsImportantMatterPoliticsTechnologyWorryGoneLandPlanetsTomorrowPeriodsConflictAll ThingsIndiaAncientBurdenChinaBordersYieldMarsGiverOld DaysSettlementAncient History Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.” HandsSituationGoneImpossiblePeriodsVariousSuperheroTricky Author:John Carpenter
“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.” ThinkingHas BeensPastEnjoyInterestingGoneStrangePeriodsCreatingPhotographAtmosphereFascinatingSlipsSurrealMost InterestingAmbience Author:Kate Atkinson
“Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.” GonePeriodsClaimsFaultsPostsMentalityOrthodoxy Author:George Ayittey
“I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.” IfsCasesGonePeriodsAgencyFree Agency Author:Terrell Owens
“Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.” ThinkingWholeAmericaSpiritCan DoGoneSourcePeriodsLimitsOptimismStrikesDisaster Author:Peter Beinart
“I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.” ThinkingShouldLongMomentsLastsArtistLosesSituationGonePeriodsSongwritersYour MomMojo Author:Jimmy Cliff
“As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHelpingRunningLastsCertainOpportunityGoneWonderfulPeriodsCharity Author:Emma Watson
“We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.” IfsGivingStillsWould BeAgeChanceGoneForeverBuildingPeriodsEuropeRemainsSacredViewersGothic Author:Bernd Becher
“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.” WorldFirstsKindIdeasWarTodayChristianSinMoralChristianityGoneInfluenceCenturyPeriodsLateRootsImprovementWar Of The WorldsEnlightenedAbandonedUnnecessaryStereotypeTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyHangoverProtestantismFirst World War Author:Alister E. McGrath
“So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.” PeopleYearsHumansHas BeensGoneModernCenturyDevelopmentPeriodsMoonLateDiscoveryHorseInnovationErasCoveredCows19th CenturyMost AmazingCamelsWagonsAccelerationModern Era Author:Edgar Mitchell
“"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.” MomentsCoursesGonePeriodsPlastic Author:Peter Drucker
“I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.” ThinkingWorldFeelsSidesGonePeriodsAweMelancholyCoinsLensesFlip Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.” HomePurposeGonePeriodsAdjustment Author:Paul Dano
“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.” LittlesCountryTodayBitsNumbersGoneMiddleRevolutionPeriodsLittle BitComplicatedEastRadicalMiddle East1960sMonarchyTurmoil Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.” WorldYearsMeanWholePastSongProcessEnjoyVoiceChallengesAcceptingGoneFourFieldsPeriodsYears AgoNotesCriticalAround The WorldRangeFour YearsJoyful Author:Joan Baez
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."” PlayCoursesBehindsGonePeriodsLeavingSonnetFadingRacksSpectaclesPageantTransienceProspero Author:Martha Ronk
“The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.” CharacterFilmCan DoGonePeriodsIndependentYou Can Do ItFormatIndependent Film Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksRealDoneLastsBehindsGoneFiveFourPeriodsDegreesPercentIncreaseClimateStormWeatherGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2Bad Weather Author:Charles Koch
“I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from within the West by nationalists, by nativists, and by people who doubt our - doubt the values of the West. We've gone through periods like this before; in the '70s, after Vietnam and Watergate, and certainly in the '30s, when people thought liberal democracy was dead, and the future belonged either to the fascists or the communists.” PeopleBelieveValuesOrderI BelieveGoneDemocracyDoubtPeriodsWestInternationalRussiaCommunistVietnamRegimesAssaultFascistsWatergateLiberal Democracy Author:Daniel Fried