#period

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#new-york-city

Oh, she's still here; she's just not as pretty... anymore. ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#periods #punctuation #writing #love

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #atmosphere #certain #closeness #clubs

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week. ↗

— Kelli White

#bad #changed #every #face #had

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#blood #freedom #nations #period #post-war

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#change #constitutional #day #every #every day

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#experienced #extreme #first #however #i

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#heart #iron #just #period #pierce