All Quotes

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
‐‐ Lance Loud

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.
‐‐ John Prescott

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
‐‐ Pat Cadigan

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
‐‐ Thomas Wolfe

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
‐‐ Vitruvius

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
‐‐ Edna Ferber

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.
‐‐ Jenni Rivera

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
‐‐ George Crumb

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the seabed), not by hefty ships that travel more slowly than senior citizens drive.
‐‐ Rose George

Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
‐‐ David R. Brower

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress.
‐‐ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.
‐‐ Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
‐‐ Ali Khamenei

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
‐‐ David Mitchell

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
‐‐ Leon Kass

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.
‐‐ Paul Feig

Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
‐‐ Natasha Little

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.
‐‐ Tuppence Middleton

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
‐‐ Alan Parker

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
‐‐ Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
‐‐ Tina Brown

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
‐‐ Ernest Mandel

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
‐‐ John Lydon

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.
‐‐ Russell Smith

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead