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
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
Marshall McLuhan
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing ...
Thomas Jefferson
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream
Vincent Van Gogh
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .
Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .
Charles Dickens
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 Quayle
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain`t desperate at some point, you ain`t interesting.
Jim Carrey
I`ve always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century and I`m really fascinated by that whole time period. It`s been really so interesting through Buffy to get to visit some of that. Although I can say that corsets aren`t really...
Juliet Landau
I`ve always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century and I`m really fascinated by that whole time period. It`s been really so interesting through Buffy to get to visit some of that. Although I can say that corsets aren`t really...
Juliet Landau
Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They`re more intrigued by human relations. If you`re making a film about the trappings of the period, and you`re forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process,...
Ridley Scott
I am not a fortune teller. I would like to be judged for my work, and not for my life. If there is any possibility of changing your destiny, it may be only in your creative life, certainly not in your life, period.
Roman Polanski
Something Wild was my first movie. I was in an acting class and on a soap opera for three-and-a-half years in New York - I moved to L.A. at 25 and nothing was really going on for like a five-year period. I was still in acting class, I was in class all thr...
Ray Liotta
(about the song "Help!") I was eating and drinking like a pig, and I was fat as a pig, dissatisfied with myself, and subconsciously I was crying for help. It was my fat Elvis period.
John Lennon
(On performing period-drama dialogue) "I mean, you try to make it as real as possible but when you have lines like `The fallen eagle is Caesar; the vulture Octavius, and there is one, yet to be decided, who will betray them all`. And you`re just like, `Gr...
Emily Blunt
[about on-line dating] Look, it`s so interesting, because being a mom of a daughter - forget about it. I`m so hyper mama-bear protective: "In no way is it ever all right to meet anybody you`ve [only] ever met on-line! Period! End of story. Close chapter, ...
Diane Lane
Every artist who makes it goes through a period where it seems they`re invincible. We`ve seen it with Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Prince. It just seems like they can`t fail. And then suddenly everything levels off. I knew it when it start...
Elton John
The Cultural Revolution was a very special period of Chinese history, unique in the world. It was part of my youth. It happened between when I was 16 and when I was 26. During those 10 years, I witnessed so many terrible and tragic things. For many years,...
Yimou Zhang
From being a struggling. starving filmmaker to being incredibly successful in a period of a couple of years is quite a powerful experience, and not necessarily a good one.
George Lucas
On Stephen King (jokingly): "We have a joke now - because the first two films I directed were period prison movies - that my directing career will stall unless he writes another period prison story" -- Frank Darabont, Creative Screenwriting
Frank Darabont
On Stephen King (jokingly): "We have a joke now - because the first two films I directed were period prison movies - that my directing career will stall unless he writes another period prison story" -- Frank Darabont, Creative Screenwriting
Frank Darabont
River and I would talk about being old, being in our 50s together, how it`d probably take us that long to get to work together. There was something gorgeous about us being old together. River will be missed -period. I mean now, more than ever I wish I cou...
Joaquin Phoenix
Take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period and a better production.
David Mamet
[Recalling a period he went through when he was 18]: I watched Raging Bull (1980) like 50 times. I wanted to be Italian. For a year I was Italian; that`s all I did. I could do all that New York street stuff to the point where I would get feedback from my ...
Sam Rockwell
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
