They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leanin...
[from ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we...
Director: Cut dammit! Cut! Mr Bakshi. Hrundi V. Bakshi: Yes, Sir? Director: Has it occurred to you that the period of our picture is 1878? Hrundi V. Bakshi: Oh, yes indeed sir. I am well aware that that is the period of the film. 1878. Director: Mr. ...
Be proud of being a woman; proud of everything that comes in the package - including the mood swings of pms, the frustration of periods, the labour pains, everything. Along with the pms comes deeper understanding of yourself, your weaknesses and chan...
Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 - in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor peopl...
You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputatio...
The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.
Over rolling long periods, U.S. and non-U.S. stocks tend to equalize.
I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.
