Quotes About Transition

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this.

Over and over, she had tended that dress as it wore out, knotting the first loose threads, catching the next tiny rent, mending and hiding the splits one after the other, wearing the dress as long as the fabric could be decently held together, until eventually there came a tear too wide to be bound up, and the dress had to go. Perhaps her life with Bud had been like that and had been destined to end even without his death.

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

Whatever you see, he'd said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.

We used to wait for our electronics to warm up, now it's our software.

IT'S A sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism's DNA—hanging about like an actor's understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and—hey presto—suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps

was done fucking about in the shadows—it was time to get legal.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'

The past will become the future. The future will become the past.

This is a thing that I'm sure is obvious to everyone else but is never-endingly astonishing to me: that every change, every life, consists of nothing but a series of days.

This is how it happens: you can't imagine a person being out of your life until you can't imagine how she ever could have been in your life in the first place.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

the threshold between the hospital and its outside was like a threshold between worlds, between media.

The Hassidim tell a story about the world to come that says everything there will be just as it is here. [...] Everything will be as it is now, just a little different.

It was no longer a little different from itself, no longer an emissary from a world to come.

The banner between sleep and waking had torn and now people and things were passing through it.

Everything was totally normal and the countryside was gorgeous, and in a few days' time one would be going into an absolute charnel house.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist… First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.