“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?” GivingBookOne ThingMaterialsPeriodsNewsNewspapersTeenagerSmarterPublishersTime Periods Author:Tamora Pierce
“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.” PeopleYearsLittlesSaidI CanCountryCan DoFourWonderfulHappenedBrotherPeriodsThings HappenHeyParisFour YearsPilotsAirplaneMarvelousFlewTime PeriodsMarvelous ThingsWright Brothers Author:Burt Rutan
“I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.” WritingDifferentStoriesPeriodsRelevantDiariesDictionaryDialectSlangTime PeriodsOral History Author:Ron Rash
“I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.” SometimesDifficultPeriodsAnother TimeTime PeriodsMailing Author:Chris Messina
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.” PeopleShouldLife IsSleepBalancePeriodsActivityLaborThirdsEnjoyedDividedIdlenessRecreationRebuildingLife BalanceTime Periods Author:Brigham Young
“I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.” WritingEnjoyPeriodsResearchNerdTime Periods Author:Susan Holloway Scott
“The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.” WantedPurposeClearPeriodsSignificantTime Periods Author:Rick Warren
“My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen.” CultureCommunityAdviceWillingPoetPeriodsVarietyTraitsStolenTime Periods Author:Lucia Perillo
“It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness, the greed, the hate, and rejected it and tried to create something new. Their creation neither succeeded nor failed. It was another experience.” SoulHateGenerationsCreationPeriodsGreedSomething NewRejected1960sRamaPettinessTime Periods Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.” KnowsYearsLostPeriodsNinePoundsNow And ThenNine YearsTime Periods Author:Star Jones
“Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.” StoriesLiteratureWrittenPeriodsAccurateDepictionTime Periods Author:Amy Harmon
“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.” WorldStoriesBodyReligionThreeThis WorldPeriodsEmptyDisappearCoreFiftyHeavenlyFortyEasterTombsExitAngelicAnnouncementsAscensionTime Periods Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality? Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?
“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.” PeopleWorldImportantMomentsFallLostAnswersFailingStageFrontsThis WorldPeriodsAdultsFalling In LoveBusyInvisiblePeersToo BusyListen To MeSpoken WordTime Periods Author:Sarah Kay
“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.” MenCountryEnoughHappensCultureLeftPaintingPeriodsInstanceBurningOther CountriesSudanTime Periods Author:George Clooney
“The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.” CountrySexBornViewsHugePersonalityPeriodsShapesRaisedTime Periods Author:Lizzy Caplan
“I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.” MenWayFeelsStillsDifferentHomeMotherHateFatherHouseTalkingHe ManPeriodsI HatePantsRulersDespisedDifferent TimesTime Periods Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.” ActorsNiceParticularPeriodsMadFatsVillageDiariesTime Periods Author:Nico
“When theres ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, thats nonsense!', so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.” WellsMeanCreativePeriodsNonsenseConsensusBreakthroughHave ConfidenceResearchersTime Periods Author:Burt Rutan
“Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.” WayTryingDifferentAgeInterestingAttitudeGroupsPeriodsGenreDifferent WaysPunkCousinTime Periods Author:Jack White
“Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.” FeelsStillsI CanEyePeriodsResearchTime Periods Author:Daniel Clowes
“You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues” IndividualSocialIssuesTroublePeriodsHistoricalSocial IssuesTime Periods Author:C. Wright Mills
“I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.” GivingEnoughCharacterStoriesPeriodsHistoricalDetailsFlavorTime Periods Author:Julie Klassen
“There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.” DoeIdeasProblemGrowsUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyAudienceDesignIdentityDependsPeriodsApproachConceptsFocusedDrivenErasEvolveTime Periods Author:Ivan Chermayeff
“Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.” ThinkingNeedsStillsI CanDifferentSometimesMovingTurnsNextOpportunityMistakeFiveWeekMinutesPeriodsPerformancesDefeatFive MinutesDifferent TimesTime Periods Author:Filo Tiatia
“We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.” IfsThinkingShouldKidsNationsImaginationBreakMomDadPeriodsShould HaveLegsInchesPlasticAccountantsHelmetMom And DadTime PeriodsScooters Author:Ramin Bahrani
“A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.” MenPersonsFoolPeriodsCleverClevernessClever ManTime Periods Author:Voltaire
“Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.” WorldPersonsDoeImportantBlackPresidentDemocracyPeriodsCriticismTablesChanging The WorldWhat's ImportantRight PersonTime PeriodsExceptionalism Author:Danny Glover
“I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.” WantStoriesFeltPeriodsLateHockeyRight TimeTime Periods Author:Gabe Polsky
“My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.” PeopleStylePeriodsPatternsPrintChicTime PeriodsBoho Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.” ParticularPeriodsPopsStuckSongwritingTime Periods Author:Nile Rodgers
“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
“People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.” PeopleThinkingBigsPeriodsAccentsTime Periods Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.” PeopleKnowsWorldReadingGroupsThis WorldPeriodsSettingSettingsDaydreamingTime PeriodsOh My Gosh Author:Brit Marling
“I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and analyze the time period with comparisons to the figure and the facial structure. It helps to be comfortable with computers because the massive amount of research is kept electronically and shared with my staff this way. Very little is printed out. I work with an illustrator to come up with the proper silhouettes and details of the clothing from the time period to time period. And on and on.” WayLittlesCharacterHelpingStoriesIndividualUnderstandingFiguresAmountPeriodsComfortableComputerResearchStructureIntentionCome UpDetailsHelp MeComparisonMassiveZeroClothingsStaffPrintedFacialSilhouettesIllustratorsTime Periods Author:Ruth E. Carter
“I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.” ShouldBelieveUnderstandingPartyClearPeriodsStandardsShould HaveManagementEngagedEtcAppropriateMeasurementTime PeriodsUnderstanding Why Author:Warren Buffett
“Time is the most important factor in determining market movements and by studying past price records you will be able to prove to yourself history does repeat and by knowing the past you can tell the future. There is a definite relation between price and time. By studying time cycles and time periods you will learn why market tops and bottoms are found at certain times, and why resistance levels are so strong at certain times, and prices hold around them. The most money is made when fast moves and extreme fluctuations occur at the end of major cycles.” DoeMadeImportantEndsAblePastMovingCertainFoundStrongLevelsKnowingStudyRecordsMovementPeriodsProveMajorsRelationBottomExtremesResistanceFactorsRepeatsCyclesDefiniteFluctuationTime Periods Author:William Delbert Gann
“At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the '90s.” GirlSocialPeriodsInfluentialTime PeriodsCool Girl Author:Roopal Patel
“I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.” WantKidsJobsCertainOrderAnswersPeriodsMailDesksTime Periods Author:Victoria Chang
“A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.” WritingWholeRomanceHateFeltCausesPeriodsI HateEightRebelFlagsNaziHatefulNo LoveConfederateTime PeriodsAntebellum Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.” WholeRomancePeriodsNo LoveTime PeriodsAntebellum Author:Quentin Tarantino
“As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I think that's where the juiciest conversations and the juiciest drama lives. My goal with the series is to get people talking about and reflecting on how issues of race play out in their own lives. Since I've spent a fair amount of time watching time travel shows and movies where the leads are White (and can blend in really easily no matter the time period) I thought I would turn that on its head and see what might happen.” PeopleThinkingMatterPlayShowsMightHappensTurnsGoalWhiteRaceTalkingIssuesAmountPeriodsDramaConversationFairsSeriesCommittedInvisibleTime TravelExploringReflectingPeople TalkingTime PeriodsInvisible ThingsDrama Life Author:Steven C. Harper
“Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that time period, was completely steadfast. We bought Bear Stearns because we thought we were helping the situation. We didn't cut and run.” HelpingRunningCompanySituationCuttingBearsProudNeededPeriodsProgramReliefAssetsSteadfastTime PeriodsTarp Author:Jamie Dimon
“I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or nothing like that. I wanted to speak on this time period where I was fed up with a couple things and I had an idea of what I wanted to do.” TryingIdeasWantedSpeakRecordsCouplePeriodsLifestyleFedsMainstreamFed UpTime PeriodsCouple Things Author:Young De
“I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.” StoriesMysteryEmotionalPeriodsCreatingConnectionsHearingNostalgiaErasTime Periods Author:Elle Fanning
“During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.” MadeReasonGovernmentSufferingAttentionResponsibilityPovertyRightsLandPeriodsResourcesEssenceNeglectSovereignTribesTreatiesTime Periods Author:Leonard Peltier
“You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.” LooksActorsPeriodsDressesBunchExtrasTime PeriodsLining Up Author:Boyd Holbrook
“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.” MadeEnoughFactsTalkingAudienceAirCarPeriodsFlowChecksMainstreamBotheredTime PeriodsBuckminster FullerZephyr Author:Jonathon Keats
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.” KindDifferentTodayNationsRealizingUnitedCommunicationAmountPeriodsMusic IsVarietyDifferent KindsFrankOutletsGreat AmericanJustinSteroidTime Periods Author:Robert Davi
“That was an amazing time period [ CBGB filming] to transport to during filming - the clothes, the music, the lifestyle - it really helps to get into character when there's so much that changes from the moment you step onto the set.” MomentsCharacterHelpingStepsPeriodsClothesLifestyleTransportTime PeriodsCbgb Author:Ashley Greene
“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.” BodySchoolConsciousnessGrowing UpGrowingTaughtParticularPeriodsFemaleCatholicSensitiveVisibleMissionarySiteAsiaNunRepressedFemale BodyTime Periods Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim