Top 232 Periods Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Periods Quotes from famous people such as Luke Evans, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Favreau, Laura Kuenssberg, Jack Black, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they’re long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It’s quite interesting.
Luke Evans
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
Matthew McConaughey
You don’t get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you’re in town, you’re working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
Jon Favreau
It’s worth knowing that there’s very different sets of regulation for the print press and for broadcast media. They’re different things, particularly during campaign periods.
Laura Kuenssberg
I’ve had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you’ve really Joeled it up – there’s some good periods of Joel; it’s not all hot cheese. But I can’t judge anyone else for their cheese. I’ve deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
Jack Black
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb
In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.
Luke Shaw
I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because then youre not trying hard enough.
Grayson Perry
Many times, periods of struggle are more blessed times.
Philip Bailey
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
There were periods when I was first-choice keeper and was starting to consolidate my position when out of the blue I got injured. It happened a few times and it really unsettled me.
Lukasz Fabianski
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
Ben Okri
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
Aaron Klug
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn’t seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.
William Julius Wilson
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
When I think back on my childhood and the things that happened to me, there were certain periods of time where I felt like I was being saved for something. I feel like I have a gift, and it would be a sin to waste it.
Lonnie Johnson
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
Rowan Atkinson
I’ve been through periods where I haven’t worked and would have paid someone to give me a job – I think that’s really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, ‘I love my job.’
Rachel Skarsten
What I like about climbing that it’s so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.
Adam Ondra
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
Alan Greenspan
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.
Nelson Rockefeller
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
John Malkovich
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up – when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about – and I’m thinking about it all the time, but I’m not really inside it, inside the writing.
Jayne Anne Phillips
When I think of a video game, I think about how I’d love to have Buddy Rogers vs. Ric Flair, something like that, where you can wrestle these Legends against each other from different periods and stuff.
Bret Hart
Periods of inactivity, I don’t know such things. I’m consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
John Lydon
I don’t really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods, what you should hear is continuity.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
James Black
We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
Henry Rollins
Cricket keeps me away from classes, and home, for long periods at a time. But talking to friends and family helps, it is a sacrifice I have to make, because I love cricket.
Stuart Binny
I’ve lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
I go through periods listening to specific types of mus

I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I’m a musician, listening to music is… it’s a bit like work for me. A little bit.
James McBride
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can’t listen to music while I write. It’s too absorbing.
Cheryl Mendelson
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I’ve always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.
Colleen Atwood
As an actor, you’re not working every day and sometimes not for long periods of time.
Van Heflin
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There’s no clock in baseball; it’s not over until it’s over. It’s like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
Bennett Miller
Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.
Alfred Hershey
I’ve said before, I’ve always had difficulty with anxiety and depression. I’ve been on medication for it since I was about 18 years old, varying degrees of medication. I’ve had big ups and downs with it and very bad periods.
Scott Snyder
Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are – their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
Aaron Lazar
I’ve been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.
Henry Paulson
I’m able to get out there and wrestle for longer periods of time. It was like a whole new thing I hadn’t done really in years.
Tenille Dashwood
When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.
Ananya Birla
The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode – an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background… For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
Ben Bernanke
In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more – no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.
John Hickenlooper
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin’ wealthy.
Jim Carrey
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Jack Kilby
Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn’t have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.
Melissa Benoist
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.
Romesh Ranganathan
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
Robbie Robertson