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Quotes About Period

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
~ Harrison Birtwistle
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
~ Warren Zevon
I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.
~ Freddie Gibbs
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
~ Laz Alonso
Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
~ Ambrose Bierce
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.
~ Karl Marx
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
~ Thiruman Archunan
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
~ William Shenstone
Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.
~ Will Self
We entered a period in which every moment was weighted with both the absolute necessity of hope and a terrible and almost unbearable anticipation of the worst.
~ William Kent Krueger
Marcie talked about her life, and she talked about the courses she was taking. She told Lily that she was a feminist and she said that women had to take back the space that men had stolen from them. She talked about her body. She talked about ownership. She said that she was proud of her period, and Lily thought that this was the oddest thing to be proud of. She herself wasn't ashamed of it, but she hadn't ever thought it worth discussing.
~ David Bergen
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
~ David Eddings
In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
~ David Icke
Spring is the Period Express from God.
~ Emily Dickinson
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
~ Samuel Butler
If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.
~ Vince Cable
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
~ Steve Reich
I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.
~ Stana Katic
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
~ Dan C. Quayle
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
~ George Orwell
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
~ Cary Elwes
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
~ Wendell Berry
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
~ David Suzuki
This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.
~ Charlie Chaplin