Quotes About Change

The Emerald City has been ruled by men long enough

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.

When I asked her about her days in Brooklyn she doled out scraps and then went silent. What was the use? The past is the past and it's dangerous to go back.

Remember, America... not Wind like a watch, but Wind... like the air...

It may either bounce back after touching the level or breaking it and turning the resistance into a support level.

the re-building process may not be as comfortable as before.

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!

We say that a given habit grows on us. Really it grows in us, becomes second nature.

Moreover, we forget things every day, so in a sense we are constantly dissolving into nothingness.

The fox who keeps to one den is the easiest caught by the terriers, and I felt I had nested too long in one place.

When Henry Ford invented the Model-T, women shed their bloomers and put sex on the road.

Sharon: innocent freckle-faced red-haired good Sharon : I was a vicious, vengeful compulsive BRUTE to you at school. 30+ years on-Now I'm very sorry

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

Progress demands deviation from the norm.

The mathematicians and engineers may have disavowed the existence of God, but they placed themselves in a celestial role of giving life to a pile of inorganic material. And it changed them.

But I wish we could throw off some excess weight." Joe eyed Chet slyly.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Alas, said the mouse, the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into. You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.