Period Quotes

What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period.

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period.