Quotes About Progression

It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.

Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.

To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.

You just go from day to day and before you know it fifty years are up.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

The theory arrived neither full-blown, like an orphan on the doorstep, nor sharply defined, like a spike through a shoe; nor did it develop as would a photographic print, crisp images gradually emerging from a shadowy soup. Rather, it unwound like a turban, like a mummy bandage; started with the sudden loosening of a clasp, a scarab fastener, and then unraveled in awkward spirals from end to frazzled end.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. -

It's simple, Miss Philpot. This is one of God's early models, and He decided to give the subsequent ones smaller eyes." I raised my eyebrows. "Do you mean God rejected it?" "I mean God wanted a better version—the crocodile we know now—and replaced it.

Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.

There are, broadly speaking, three directly analogous progressions inthe history of art: in Antiquity, from the blockiness of Egyptian art to the loose, painterly handling of Roman landscape frescoes; in the Middle Ages, from the tectonic emphasis of Ottonian art to the flamboyance of late Gothic; and in later times, from early Renaissance linearity to the sparkling web of light spun by the Rococo. The wheel turns full circle, but more rapidly each time.

The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves.

Wonderment in the face of the other is also so beautifully exacting a progression from mere tolerance.

When she reached the final landing, she cast her sword aside for all time, and it could now be seen still tumbling across the night sky. It was dominant in spring, the sword tipped up in the "salute" position, and as the seasons progressed into early winter, the sword spiraled until the tip was planted downward in the "warrior at rest" position.

There are hierarchies of structures, and new concepts arise at each level.

If by "time" we mean nothing more than happening, then everything is time. There is only that which exists in time.

Physics does not describe how things evolve "in time" but how things evolve in their own times, and how "times" evolve relative to each other.*

The difference between past and future only exists when there is heat.