“There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.” WorldTwoAbleReadingMonthsPeriodsSixAspectIndependentEntitySix MonthsConvincingTransparentDetachedTwo WorldsJellyfish Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner
“The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.” WritingUsedLanguageLinesNumbersPeriodsIndependentCodeFixedProgrammers Author:Fernando J. Corbato
“Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.” ThinkingMindDifferentCharacterFilmFormDifferencesActingTvsTypeDisciplinePeriodsDramaTheaterIndependentSizeStudiosActiveContemporaryGenreIndependent Film Author:Luke Evans
“I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.” BelieveI BelieveAnswersMoralOughtPeriodsIndependentGenuineOur Thoughts Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“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
“'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.” WorldWayHumansEndsActionForcePowerfulTechnologySeriousPeriodsIndependentFundamentalsDistanceThreatPopulationDomainTransformingAutonomousHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People." .” PeopleKnowsPeriodsIndependentBe GoodWinnerPrizeNobelNobel PrizeNobel Prize Winners Author:Stephen Dobyns