Quotes About Transition

The capitalist era is passing . . . not quickly, but inevitably.

Logan's voice switched from a growl to a scream to a seductive whisper from one song to the next.

Give me a second to put on something a little less Almost Got Killed In.

I thought I was long done with the Firsts. First Easter since his death, First Birthday, First Trip to IHOP, First Phillies Game. But everything we ever did together, that we'd never share again--like Longwood Gardens at Christmas--still waited before me. In that moment, I dreaded the rest of my life.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

Quand j'étais petite, je gardais les vaches; maintenant ce sont elles qui me gardent…

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

Purgatory is hope.

Life will be less attractive than when Aden was here, but still I must step onward. With the program over, she got the horse ready with Monroe's help. No one gave her strange looks when she drove away. Already other buggies were hitched up to leave. Her heart hurt as she drove down the gravel road and past the creek and Aden's old

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

I wasn't sad after my father kissed the streetcar. If anything, it was a relief. Much as I missed him, his dying gave me an excuse to feel the way I already felt. Which was the way I felt right now, under the laundry room fluorescents: hollow, pissed off, wanting to be wherever I wasn't. Until I got there. Then I wanted to be somewhere else.

It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught myself. I might have ended up the only man in the rest home who still thought Jack Kerouac was cool.

Maybe the reason you can never go home again is that, once you're back, you can never leave...

The Rock knew his wrestling career was over when he looked across the ring and saw his opponent... THE PAPER.

Every communication has as its goal to take the audience from where they are at the start of your presentation, which is Point A, and move them to your objective, which is Point B. Recognizing

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

There's an end to all truth now that the war's over. We've seen too much. The conjurers and cardsharpers have given away their tricks. It's the end of blackmail.

In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldn't find another use for and couldn't compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair-spray cans, paper towels. Sometimes you'd see a pile that was as high as your waist. Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse. But you could just as well say that who we were went out with the empties. We will never get our selves back.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

In California, the first spring is in November. March only echoes.

Being old is being useless, and having things be useless to you. Because: the world is what is still to come. It isn't what is or what was.