237 Quotes About Periods

  • Author Wendell Berry
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    We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

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  • Author Zbigniew Brzezinski
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    Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush

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  • Author Benedict Cumberbatch
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    I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

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  • Author Daniel Clowes
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    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.

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  • Author Don Cahoon
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    We were a little too sloppy in all three periods to be able to squeak out a win.

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  • Author Meg Cabot
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    There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.

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  • Author Michael Crichton
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    The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

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