Top 460 Period Quotes

It’s absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn’t do anybody any good in the long run. It’s a dangerous drug.
John Hunter
I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I’d feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn’t healthy, and I didn’t want to be healthy.
Brittany Snow
I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially – and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out – there was a dislocation that occurred in some of the more traditional mechanisms.
Scott Morrison
I read numerous books – loads in fact – and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry’s old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Rick Wakeman
We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong – for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.
Abhijit Banerjee
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Wassily Kandinsky
I think I’m much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that’s something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.
Hugo Weaving
I actually have a history of doing quite a few period dramas, but I think I really specifically wanted to do the Regency era, and to be able to do high-society Regency era is even more amazing.
Phoebe Dynevor
I’m contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I’ve been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I’m really tired of it. I’m continually uninspired by what’s being sent to me. Even by huge films that they’re doing there. They’re just awful.
Sherilyn Fenn
When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They’d be ok after an hour – I’d have to stay in bed till the next session.
Jonah Lomu
We’ve all known how to smile since the beginning of time. We’ve all gotten married since the beginning of time. We’ve all had romance, glamour, and splendor. Representing that is incredibly important, because period drama for people who aren’t white shouldn’t mean only spotlighting trauma.
Rege-Jean Page
My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.
Nico Santos
You’re a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That’s all that matters on telly.
Bettany Hughes
I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I’ve got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.
Jim Cramer
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble? Steph Curry.
Jalen Rose
I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a period of time, I think people now realise that most of the things I say are in jest.
Ranveer Singh
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
Shirley MacLaine
I love experiencing other people’s realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
Josh Lucas
I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.
Jake Gyllenhaal
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
S. Jay Olshansky
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
We said, OK. We’ll – as long as you take good care of us. And so it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole period of time. And it’s a very unique experience.
Emmanuel Lewis
If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can’t expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
Donnie Wahlberg
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Robert M. Pirsig
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don’t think about how I’ll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That’s what the great players do.
Dan Marino
We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don’t know.
Peter Jennings
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Patton Oswalt
You learn a lot more when you’re going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.
MS Dhoni
At some future period, not very distant as measured by

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin
I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.
Rene Burri
It’s interesting because I haven’t done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I’m interested in history.
Colm Meaney
In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
Klaus Fuchs
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
Len Wein
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
Ed Rollins
The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We’re going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I’ve been in in a long time.
John McCain
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
Julius Wellhausen
I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target – and future.
Ryan Kwanten
We’re trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.
Tom Hicks
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm
The golden period for all the castes, including BCs, was when Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was at the helm. An education revolution was witnessed during that period, when many students had become engineers and doctors.
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.
Sonny Rollins
Once you own a team for as many years as I have, and you root for that team for that period of time, you’ve got rooting for the Blazers in your blood, and the Sonics are one of our arch-competitors.
Paul Allen
Female adolescence is – universally – an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin
I’d like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
Luther Vandross
The ’80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
Geezer Butler
I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.
Virginia Henley
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
Karlie Kloss
I’m more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.
Lenny Kravitz
The fact that ‘Small Island’ is ‘period’ is amazing for me because it’s something that I’ve never been involved with before. Also, half my family is Jamaican and this story is essentially a story about Jamaican people, and it’s portraying a part of history that I was not that familiar with myself.
Ashley Walters
We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.
Ada Hegerberg
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
Ringo Starr
To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.
John Mayall