#periods

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#car #checks #drive #guns #how

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#desperate #had #i #longest #often

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

I'm inspired by history, different periods. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#history #i #inspired #periods

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#covering #development #different #done #four

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #individuals #most #periods #revolutions

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ↗

— Don Marquis

#between #interval #periods #unhappiness

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#did #during #i #ideas #periods