Quotes About Transition

Um dos traços evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.

Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor.

I myself went into a hospital and came out French.

The cold water stung Cassandra's toes. She thought about everything—a blur of images and sounds: leaving Clarion, driving to the Cape, Noah kissing her, unpacking the car into the cottage, the cello singing out to the sea—and then she sank into the moment and let herself think about nothing. It had been so long since she'd been able to think about nothing. Nothing at all.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

and the poor slob soon became a lame duck.

Most days I woke up brimming with a sudden terror--that I'd forgotten to do essential things, that I'd never make friends in Colorado, that my appearance as an adult in the world was only a thin candy shell hiding a tiny, rattling center of incompetent thirteen-year-old, or worse yet, nothing at all.

We sat by deathbeds that became doorways of heaven. W

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

The skin of Herbert's chest and arms and head turned opaque as a nearly colorless essence, smoke or mist or fog, rose off his body.

It had struck me that most people's lives unfolded through a constant process of recalibration. Things happen, often unexpectedly, and a person's life adjusts to account for them.

To step toward your destiny, you might have to step away from your security.

The door closed, and he was gone into the twilight of early evening like an afterthought.

My eyes closed again for what I thought was only a moment and when I opened them she was gone and a different head, panting with a different sort of breath and with a worried look on his long face, was hanging over me. Unsure, he slathered a lick on the side of my head with a tongue as wide as a paperback, correct in the belief that a good kiss made everything better—well, almost everything.

He said that it's like losing a part of yourself, but worse because we're left with who we are after, and sometimes we don't recognize that person.

It was one of those late summer days that sometimes showed up in early October after a killing frost—warm, dry, and hazy; Indian summer. The term is over two hundred years old, coined in 1778 by the French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur to describe the warm calm before the winter storm.

Maybe that's what happens when you invest so much of yourself in something: whether it is a person or a place, your soul is loath to leave it. I looked for Danny's outline on those hills and thought maybe his ghost or spirit was still here, looking over the place that had been his. Maybe you stayed until you realized it wasn't yours anymore and then you went on your way.

I've done four other films since 'Submarine ' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.

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.

I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?

Things change, but this is just one side of normality we have to deal with.