One writes fables in periods of oppression.

- Italo Calvino

My weight fluctuates, and I haven't always been skinny. I became curvier in my twenties, but I never felt self-conscious about it; going through different periods is all part of being a woman.

- Christy Turlington

I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.

- Britt Daniel

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

- Adam Lambert

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

- John Pomfret

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

- Don Marquis

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

- Daphne Gottlieb

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- Alfred North Whitehead

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

- Edward Hoagland

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

- Jonathan Dee

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

- Hu Shih

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

- C. L. R. James

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

- Alfred Hershey

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

- Guy Debord

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

- Irwin Redlener

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- George Santayana

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

- James W. Black