Browsing Topic Best Time Periods Quotes

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

When you’re reading Chekov, you’re in this world that he’s created. I never would have created that world. I don’t know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it’s amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.

That was an amazing time period [ CBGB filming] to transport to during filming – the clothes, the music, the lifestyle – it really helps to get into character when there’s so much that changes from the moment you step onto the set.

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation…all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

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.

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We’re talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

1980’s: not a time period but a state of mind.

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

I don’t believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, ‘Ooh, hey, I can do that.’ There’s only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness, the greed, the hate, and rejected it and tried to create something new. Their creation neither succeeded nor failed. It was another experience.

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he’s telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn’t exist, and I’ve seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it’s not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.

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.

I don’t want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70’s and 80’s into the 90’s was the right time period to tell the story.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We’ve had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven’t seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What’s interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they – when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.

Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.

I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I’m in.

In a perfect world, Joshua?s vertically gifted murderer would?ve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would?ve announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god?s country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should’ve been born in the mid-to-late ’40s.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder – everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the ’90s.

I’m such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

Often I’ll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn’t have to for the ’70s… I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I’m not stuck in any one particular time period.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.