Quotes About Transition

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing.

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad.

In high school, I was the best broad jumper on our team, and I kind of thought that when I got to MIT, I'd probably still be the best broad jumper, 'cause why do broad jumpers come to MIT? But it turned out to actually be the other way around. There was another person in my class who could jump about 3 feet further than I could.

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this person who was reclusive, or hiding.

What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and everything - but being a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia... it was like someone had turned the light off in my head. I could not get a grasp on why women were treated like this.

Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

Yes, everyone thought I was crazy when I moved to the U.S. after having had a very successful career in Mexico. It was like Adam Sandler turning his back on Hollywood and going to China to start all over.

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.