“It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.” YearsWellsSpaceOpinionPeriodsHundredYears AgoPrejudiceMereCeaseImpressionSpotsAestheticVehicleDelightfulVoyagesTouristsVisitingRough Times Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925 Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?” IfsWellsPeriodsIllAffectedHidingOrganismsImmuneBasementsImmune SystemTime PeriodsHiding Out Author:Brit Marling
“For business to survive over a long period, it needs to be contributing to society and people's well-being. Otherwise, who's going to want it? Otherwise you end up like Enron or some of these other companies.” PeopleWantNeedsWellsLongEndsCompanyPeriodsWell BeingContributingEnron Author:Charles Koch
“It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too.” FeelsTryingWellsLooksDifferentArtistCommunityForgetPeriodsComplicatedMake SenseSimilarityNuance Author:Missy Mazzoli
“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
“When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.” WorldWellsAmericaWaitingPresidentChallengesGraceMonthsPeriodsSixChiefsSix MonthsCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Marco Rubio
“No one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.” PeopleThinkingWellsTwoRaceWeekStagePeriodsSouthFinishedDebateClueTwo WeeksCarolinaSouth CarolinaHampshireNew Hampshire Author:John Kasich
“I want you to say to me right from the start, "We are here to serve customers. We're not here for me to make a lot of money. We're not here to bet on interest rates or credit spreads. We are here to serve our customers really well over a long period of time, and that's how you build a successful business." And so I want to see that, too, you know?” KnowsWantWellsLongInterestSuccessfulPeriodsRateSpreadCreditCustomersLots Of MoneyI Want YouSuccessful BusinessInterest RateLong Periods Of Time Author:Jamie Dimon
“I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.” YearsWellsLittlesI CanEndsStatesShowsJobsGrowthUnitedUnited StatesVirtueFourSeeingPolicyKeysDependsPeriodsCompetitionRateEmployeeFour YearsGlobesUnemploymentUnemployment RateJob Growth Author:Mitt Romney
“I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."” IfsWayWritingWellsSaidForceProcessAnswersNovelStudentsMinesPeriodsNovelistsJaneBookstoresQuestions And AnswersSmiley Author:Edward Hirsch
“So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensRememberReadingWrittenHappenedPeriods Author:Paul McCartney
“The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsWholeLibertyPeriodsThemeZero80sElectronic MusicIdiomDerangedLess Than Zero Author:Sam de Jong
“I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.” IfsWritingYearsWellsTwoSometimesPlayProblemSeemsHalfWrittenMinesPeriodsCriticsDepressing Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.” ThinkingWellsLittlesLongPhilosophyFormViewsPeriodsIntellectualEthicsToolsPhilosophicalBoxesTreatedVersionsContemptRespectableCalculusUtilitarianismTool Boxes Author:Allen W. Wood
“Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.” WellsHas BeensWarCulturePeriodsEuropePostsDirtyAmerican CulturePost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.” WayMindWellsDifferentInspirationCulturePeriodsMusic IsFoundationDifferent Cultures Author:Erykah Badu
“The struggle hasn't ended. It's only just begun in our view. In the sense that if all goes well during the elections and we emerge as the government there will still be another form of struggle. But there's going to be lots of work in reconstruction, resettling people. In the initial period we will expect all the support groups we have here in Britain and elsewhere to concentrate their efforts in enabling us to resettle our people.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsGovernmentFormViewsEffortSupportStruggleGroupsPeriodsElectionBritainElsewhereInitialsEnablingReconstructionSupport Groups Author:Robert Mugabe
“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
“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
“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
“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.” PeopleWellsI CanCountryFactsSeemsRunningLevelsRichEconomicProductsPeriodsBenefitsPercentEuropeEastRussiaCommunismGermanyRepublicCommunistOther CountriesUnclesEasternGrossEastern EuropeCzechEast GermanyGross Domestic ProductCzech Republic Author:Kenneth Arrow
“After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsIdeasValuesSecretStudyClearSecurityPeriodsSolutionsProgramClaimsOriginalsTerroristTargetPakistanIf You BelieveCiaDronesOriginal IdeasStanfordNyu Author:Robert Greenwald
“Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.” PeopleHumansWellsKindHelpingCultureViolenceMagicPeriodsTransformationSacredAll KindsNarrativeAffirmationHuman HistoryDesolation Author:Adrienne Rich