Quotes About Period

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.

Church leaders don't know how to deal with this chronic crisis; as with the out-of-touch Orthodox hierarchy and clergy of the late imperial period, many don't seem to realize what's happening, much less how to address the decay.

Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting was over, and now he would have been happy to return to it.

The period from the ninth century in the subcontinent, far from being 'dark', was a period of illumination as it was germane to many later institutions.

CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period…literally.

Guerra e paz foi escrito no período mais feliz de sua vida.

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

At this period, after his long fast, the toad has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent. George Orwell, cited by John Carey

there's a significant difference between granting exemptions to a finite, dwindling group of employers during a transition period and granting exemptions to any employer who might ever raise a religiously framed objection, in perpetuity. A

The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary—obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that

Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

Their united reigns [the Antonines'] are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of the period in which they lived.

Paradoxically, the period of liberation from European power structures marked an unprecedented embrace of modern European cultural and political norms. It marked probably the most dramatic iconoclasm towards Asian traditional cultures of any period in history.

sólo de época en época florecen acuerdos no basados en refuerzos paranoicos.

One ought, really, never to speak of a uniform "style of the time" dominating a whole period, since there are at any given moment as many different styles as there are artistically productive social groups. Even in epochs in which the most influential work is found on a single class, and from which only the art of this class has come down to us, it ought to be asked whether the artistic products of other groups may have been buried or lost.

If life is going well, I watch quality things like period dramas and 'The Blue Planet.' But other times, I'll trawl through anything Freeview has to offer. I do believe TV can ruin your mind, but it can also be a really good friend.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.