(1383 quotes found)
“I had a blood-and-guts period when I was a kid, but I just think that whole splatter movie thing kinda got out of control, and too many people became too desensitized to other people being brutally murdered, you know?”
Rick Baker
“If you look at any six-year period, it's difficult to find one where you're in a down cycle the whole time. We have concerns [about chances for the contract to be rejected] based on feedback we're getting. Those concerns have been expressed to management.”
Gregg Overman
“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
Warren Buffett
“I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law”
Thomas Jefferson
“POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas."”
Ambrose Bierce
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”
Matthew McConaughey
“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”
Max Beerbohm
“The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.”
Yusuf Islam
“The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.”
Sarah Brady
“Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.”
David Hilbert
