I think a moratorium probably is legal and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being so we don't exacerbate the problem.

As legal slavery passed we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period in terms of writing for me.

Well immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building with my foundation a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German and it's a country I knew very well spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period of one sort or another.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are certain things unite everybody.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were for particular reasons of safety withdrawn shall we say to prevent complete catastrophe to prevent total destruction of your planet.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap the missile gap.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact as of the writing of this column millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

If good history is dispassionate history it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Let me tell you never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

I'm inspired by history different periods.

When you think of how history is revealed we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.