Quotes About Metamorphosis

They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on.

This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile. Click, click--she raises her arm and busily dusts my cheeks with pink, powdered chalk that makes me cough; then thrusts towards me her little mirror.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

It's quite common for a television show to start off as one thing and end up as something completely different. There are so many cooks in the kitchen - the network, the studio.

I'm totally serious. Look it up on the net. When women turn, they really turn.

She had always been a chameleon, taking on accents and manners suited to her circumstance, but now she felt as though she had changed into something new, and she couldn't change back.

more John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing

Distinct identities are strung together on the thread of memory, all of them provisional and perishable. No less fascinating than the birth, life, and death of our bodies are the births, lives, and deaths of these makeshift, transient identities. Reincarnation of the body is arguable; metamorphosis of identity is not.

The blood that soils your body becomes stars ...

Every hundred feet the world changes

Contact with the skin of a dead animal made it possible to communicate with all other animal species. It was the lingua franca of metamorphosis.

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

A caterpillar cannot remain in the cocoon forever. A butterfly must emerge when the time is right. Just trust in nature's timing; it's not on the same clock as you. Remember that always. Your pain will pass—it always does.

Nothing changes until you change.

The old you must die so a better you can be reborn.