Quotes About Metamorphosis

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.

I said, it's strange, each time I see you again. You look different. Altered. You're not like I remember. I have to get used to you.

I was like that once, and I'm not like that anymore.

when I turned back to him, he'd taken off all his clothes and put 'em in a pile beside the road. That sure knocked the wind outta me. I stood there like I was dead. He pissed around his clothes and all of a sudden he turned into a wolf. I'm not joking.

Richard Rivers has come into Briar like a spore of yeast into dough, changing it utterly.

rooms seemed changed. I took to

Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.

Happily chatting and counting pocket change, patting each other on the back and whistling foolish songs, we go out on the thousand-legged street and miraculously turn into passersby.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

There are two of me now, old and disfigured, new and disheveled. A crinkled, yellow newspaper balled up in the fireplace, spidery face, rotted jaw, sewn and resewn.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

Bearded peasant goes in one end of an alley, clean-shaven gentleman comes out the other? Really?" "It's a classic!

Although "making love" may serve as a polite name for an act that has many rude ones, it's misleading. For lovers do not so much make love as they are remade by love--dipped into the fire, melted down, reshaped. If they are devoted to one another, love will transform them, dissolving the shells of their old separate selves and making them anew.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

Maybe we all change over time.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.