Nationalism is LIKE alcoholism: a SHORT PERIOD of exaltation followed by a LONG period of headaches.

The CREATIVE process requires a period of BOREDOM, of being stuck. That's ACTUALLY a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just PART one of a LONG process.

In the PERIOD from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter PART of it that it was made REALLY EFFICIENT.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the EXISTENCE of the spleen in the HUMAN embryo is at the SECOND MONTH.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the FOUR years which have been SPENT within COLLEGE WALLS.

I wander around, GET the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have LIVED there in that historical period. What would they EAT? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they SHELTER themselves? How did they get around?

The reasons why I left were to do with my INTEREST in Buddhism. There were EXPERIENCES over a period of about six months which caused me to DECIDE to give up MUSIC, so one morning I felt I had to GO to E.G. Management and tell them.

The shortest period of TIME lies between the minute you put some MONEY AWAY for a rainy day and the UNEXPECTED arrival of rain.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't END it with a period. I'd end it with THREE dots.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to GET BACK to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my RESEARCH PROJECTS.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade BIRTHDAYS always kind of CAUSE me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a CAR and scrambling my whole life to then SIGNING a six-record deal with Atlantic.

I grew up WATCHING Keira Knightley FILMS NONSTOP, and I ALWAYS admired period dramas and just EVERYTHING that goes into it.