Periods Quotes - Page 24

• When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

  Bill Nighy

  Long, People, Mind

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• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

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• I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

  Linus Roache

  Moving, Love Is, Different

  "All Aboard! Linus Roache Invites You to Discover What it Took to Bring the Unforgettable World of TITANIC to Television". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. April 13, 2012.

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• My son is my routine and priority, period!

  Cory Hardrict

  Son, Priorities, Routine

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• When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

  Alexander Gould

  Character, Stories, Development

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• 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.

  Amy Harmon

  Stories, Literature, Depiction

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• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Long, Boredom, Focus

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• The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Girl, Mistake, Gay

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1881). “Wit and Wisdom”

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• The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Simple, Needs

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• There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

  William Hazlitt

  Cutting, Years, Age

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• All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Energy, Illusion, Wretchedness

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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• The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

  Judith Krantz

  Writing, Giving, Trying

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• For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Growth, Age, Doe

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• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.116

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• The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Struggle, Sovereign, Spheres

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• The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

  Doris Lessing

  Literature, Exciting, Critics

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• We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

  Anne Tyler

  House, Waiting, Teens

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.58, Random House

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• the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

  Agnes Repplier

  Envy, Purpose, Good Work

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• Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

  Simone Weil

  Lost Everything, Lost, Born

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.177, Psychology Press

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• So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Time, Moving, Trying

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• Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

  Tillie Olsen

  Book, Men, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.38, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

  Tom Peters

  People, Path, You Choose

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