Quotes About Continuity

The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.

The world remains ever the same.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

I like to be reminded that life is going on.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

When you win, you want to repeat it.

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

In the end, with all of my films, I want to understand the continuity between these films and understand what they're trying to do.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us

The heart never taking a break. The bowels never taking a nap. When it stopped, that was the day it was all over.

De todas maneras - continuó -, la pretensión de entresacar los momentos especiales de nuestra vida puede ser un grave error. Es posible que la vida sólo pueda ser juzgada en su totalidad, in extenso, y no a trozos, no tomando un día y quitando otro, no separando los años como las piezas de un rompecabezas para acabar diciendo que tal fue muy bueno y tal muy malo. Y es que todo lo que vive, vive como un río. Sin cortes, sin paradas.

Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent.

I like continuity in my life and day to day, I like things that are sort of mundane in a way, things that are familiar. I guess that's why I embrace certain aspects of my religion. It's just sort of the way I roll.

Our past is our key to our future

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.

Wrestling has a funny way of regenerating itself, and I'm sure, in the past, a lot of people have asked questions about 'Who's going to replace Sami Zayn in the locker room?' or 'Who's going to replace Kevin Owens in the locker room?' People always step in.