Quotes About Transition

No sé cuándo volví al mundo llamado normal, formulación vaga pero cuyo sentido todos comprenden, es decir, aquel en el que la visión de un lavabo brillante o de las cabezas de los pasajeros en un tren deja de plantearnos interrogantes o de resultar dolorosa.

J'ai fini de mettre au jour l'héritage que j'ai dû déposer au seuil du monde bourgeois et cultivé quand j'y suis entrée.

Le compte à rebours va bientôt commencer. C'est une véritable fête que j'ai préparée, champagne, feu de bois, et le cadeau d'adieu, une gravure ancienne du Moulin de la Galette. La seule façon de finir sans trop souffrir, faire de l'adieu une cérémonie

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf,

She rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking out from a movie theatre in the middle of the day, out from the intimate matinée darkness and the smell of popcorn, which is the smell of heightened colour and sound and story, into the borderless bright of day. Bereft.

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college.

I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

We've all been there, right? When you meet someone personally and then you find yourself working with them professionally, it's awkward.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.