Quotes About Change

to the landslide.

She decided it was time to get out of the water. If she stayed any longer, she'd go wrinkled and prune-like. Even worse, she might fall asleep and wake up only when it was cold.

You don't think of that when you retire – that you don't have any space to yourself.

What did your neighbours do before they retired?' Vera knew she should move on to the detail, to questions more relevant to the investigation, but she'd always been a nosy cow.

Recovery isn't just about stopping drinking or giving up drugs; it's about taking responsibility. Not easy, if you've been running away from it all your life.

I don't have my own life any more.

Revolutionary art need not be overtly political in content; what is more important is that it demand a new means of perception on the part of its spectators. The subject in process/on trial can thus be fundamentally transformed. Change here, at the level of individual consciousness, is a necessary element of social change. Seen in this way, the arts are not merely reflective of social relations but are productive of social relations.

Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.

This is one of the things I love about science. When the evidence for a slightly older universe was discovered, there were no scientists who sought to suppress it. As soon as the new data were verified, this revision in our understanding was embraced by the whole scientific community. That permanently revolutionary attitude, that openness to change, at the heart of science is what makes it so effective.

The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in. And you haven't seen the change that we, in the western world, would probably like. You still have a bit of a dictatorship - some people would say more than a bit of a dictatorship - in Russia and in China.

The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

This world - the Western world - has failed. We must have a plan B. We're the plan B.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.