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Quotes About Change

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.
~ Diane Paulus
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
~ Hugo Claus
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
~ Buzz Osborne
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice.
~ Mustafa Akyol
Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance.
~ Jane O'Meara Sanders
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
~ Walt Mossberg
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
~ Seth Godin
One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person leaves and takes the story with them. And you're left there without it. You're left in this version of life that's basically a succession of events and interactions that don't seem to be going anywhere.
~ Elif Batuman
If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
~ Walter Hill
I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
~ Halsey
Trish Stratus is a cassette player and I am the newest version of the iTouch. iTouches keep improving. Technology gets better and better. Cassettes are collecting dust.
~ Maryse Mizanin
When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.
~ Jay-Z
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
~ Peter Davison
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
~ Lionel Blue
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
~ Justin Sane
I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have new thoughts, new everything - so people are reading an old version of you.
~ Nicholas Hoult
I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human,' which is like the adult version of it.
~ Craig Roberts
Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.
~ Simon Mainwaring
ÅŸu son haftalar içinde bir deÄŸiÅŸiklik ortaya ç?kt?. ama nerede? hiçbir ÅŸeye baÄŸlan?lmayan soyut bir deÄŸiÅŸme bu. deÄŸiÅŸen ben miyim? ben deÄŸilsem ÅŸu oda, ÅŸu kent, ÅŸu doÄŸa; seçmek gerek. deÄŸiÅŸen benim san?yorum.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I've read that there are travellers who have changed physically and morally to such an extent that even their closest relatives did not recognize them when they came back.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Il faudrait si peu pour que le disque s'arrête...
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
în societatea noastr?, care se afl? în continu? miÈ™care, întârzierile dau uneori avansuri.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Meus estranhos sentimentos da outra semana me parecem hoje bastante ridículos; já não me identifico com eles.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre