Top 40 Time Period Quotes

‘Power’ came in August. February 2014, ‘Empire’ ended. That whole time, I was like, ‘You know what, let me just take a break from this and focus on music’ so in that time period, I did my whole EP. Got the single ‘Lotto.’

In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.

It could be hectic sometimes when you’re being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists.

There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.

One of the challenges obviously with doing an accent from a time period early in history is that there aren’t recordings. You would never really get the opportunity to hear exactly what you were shooting for.

The setting of ‘Dragon Ball’ has a sort of Chinese feel to it, but it’s not necessarily limited to China. For the time period as well, exactly when it takes place is indeterminate.

When I read ‘Stand By Me,’ it was like, ‘This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.’ That’s what got to me.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn’t correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

I love legends. I love reading up on the greats in their time period. I think, ‘Man, what it would be like to live when they were competing and see them at their best!’

George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they’re gonna go back and say, ‘Oh, that was American politics in that time period.’ I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.

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.

I’m pretty sure I would have managed to over-share no matter what time period I was born in. It’s a family thing, too.

I’ve gotten to go to far-off places in the world, have very unique, isolated, intense experiences for four or five months at a time, and then, kind of like a dream, those things disappear. You may see those people again, but it’s never, ever going to be as intense as it was for that time period.

If I had taken money from, say, venture capital, they would have wanted a certain return in a certain time period. McDonald’s, on the other hand, seemed very interested in my passion about creating this brand. I trusted them, and they did not really interfere with the brand.

People’s lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you’re still vital, and you’re still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history – high school and college courses – a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You’re left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you’re actually living through.

When there’s ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was ‘well, that’s nonsense!’ so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.

I think it’s one of the challenges of modern politics, which is, how do you communicate who the candidate is, and what they really believe, in the short time period you have? And for me, the best opportunity was the debates, and I think I was in real trouble before the debates, and I think the debates helped me a lot.

If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I’d like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me – better than corsets. I’m quite claustrophobic.

The British series I was part of, ‘Beecham House,’ directed by Gurinder Chadha, was set in 1795. That was also an incredible experience, just to see the kind of research that goes into recreating that time period.

I don’t remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident.

The time period I had in my life to look like an idiot and fail, and for no one to see that, came and went when I was 17. When you have early success, people are just lying in wait.

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.

I’m from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

You do a film for a short time period – you put it all out there and move on.

I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn’t need a trend; it doesn’t need to be constantly hyped. There’s no time period for it. That’s the type of music I want to make.

Coming to serve in the Senate and also running for the Senate in a short time period is not for the faint of heart. But I am not fainthearted.

I’m the last person to ask ‘what do you remember’ from a particular time period… I like to learn from the past… not ‘live’ in it.

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I’d like to do that.

The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.

Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.

I don’t get paid if my clients don’t get better by a certain time period. And sure, I have not been paid before. We all fail sometimes; it’s okay.

I remember watching Cate Blanchett in ‘Elizabeth’ and feeling like for the first time – even though that time period wasn’t happening now – that I believed that role.

I think we achieved what we wanted to achieve. It was a short time period but we had broken America, we had been a worldwide success, and certainly George, as a songwriter, was outgrowing Wham!

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.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I’m writing – and so there’s something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I’d like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.