Periods Quotes - Page 26

• Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.

  Jared Sparks

  Country, Writing, Character

  Jared Sparks (1853). “The life of George Washington”, p.6

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Self, Effort, Together

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Yield, Perspective, Serenity

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• When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Islands, Stopping

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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• It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

  Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

  Interesting, Rakes, Certain

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• Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, Quality

  "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

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• Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

  Jerry Smith

  Vacation, Clothes, Relaxation

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• [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Might, Distraction

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• 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.

  Anne Ellis

  Thinking, Long, Gone

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

  Annabelle Wallis

  Drama, People, Tudors

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• The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

  Brian Tracy

  Keys, Skills, Accomplish

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.14, Jaico Publishing House

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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• You have to be very productive in order to become excellent.  You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period.  It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period.  But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Writing, Order

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• My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.nationalbook.org

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• One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

  Nora Ephron

  Fighting, Want, Lasts

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.66, Melville House

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• Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .

  George Lee Butler

  Country, War, Usa

  "Gen. George Lee Butler". Interview with Michael McGuire, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 17, 1999.

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• Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

  Linda Howard

  Breakup, Thinking, People

  Linda Howard (2007). “Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel”, p.190, Ballantine Books

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• To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.

  Raymond Geuss

  Strong, Moving, Addiction

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mom, Mother, Powerful

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• Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not.

  Che Ahn

  Waiting, Purpose, Trust In God

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• Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Strong, Broken, Overcoming

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, Fawcett

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• 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.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Country, Sex, Views

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

  Selma Blair

  Voice, People, Acting

  "Selma Blair interview: 'I could be living in a castle right now, with Tom Cruise'". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2012.

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• 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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mother, Father, Hate

  "THE CALIFORNIA RECALL / Out of the mouth of Arnold, from growing up to who wears the pants" by Lance Williams, www.sfgate.com. October 4, 2003.

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