#period

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#lives #moment #movie #never #our

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#been #getting #i #long #long time

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#given #i #just #like #period

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#matrimony #period

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#childhood #forming #high #high school #i

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