Quotes About Continuity

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.)

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

All things change, nothing is extinguished.

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Oftentimes, when a movie turns into a series, you never retain the creative auspices. You buy the idea, you buy the franchise, and then you bring in a whole new creative team and copy the tone or sensibility.

If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

As tempting as it is, you can't put a naturally occurring phenomenon such as the life of a person or a country into discrete units.

A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive in a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang from the printing press -- a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, ...

A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang of the printing press - a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time.

one more piece of the bigger puzzle the library is always seeking to assemble—the looping, unending story of who we are.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Nothing lasts. Everything changes. But the changes are the same. Winter will always turn to spring.

You never get off this train.