Quotes About Change

This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would have you running from me

One minute you're on top The next you're not watch it drop Making your heart stop Just before you hit the floor

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.

The years that had passed had displayed vividly before our eyes the fickleness of human attitudes.

We had all thought things would be quite different when we first came to France. The words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were painted in giant letters over the door of the building we were in.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.

If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.

What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.

Time hangs off me like molting skin.

Between ourselves, I've started to worry that in some backhanded way I've become attached to the disfigurement of my own life.

Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.

You had bought us some other family's dream house.

Language is alive, and you can't put it in the freezer. But

Ese altruismo compulsivo parecía abnegación, sacrificio, pero era algo más escalofriante. Si Carol ya no tenía ni la más remota idea de lo que podía desear para ella, ¿qué sacrificaba? A Jackson le entristeció observar que, con los años, su mujer había reemplazado de un modo insidioso el placer con la virtud.

I wasn't sure. In those days I still held wholesomeness to be suspect.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not to a different airport.