At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.
We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Guys don't get romantically involved. " "What do they get?" "Invold, period.
There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.
I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.
I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
I've often stopped working for long periods.
To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so.
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.