Quotes About Transition

For the first time Mike felt on the downside of life's roller coaster—the back nine of life, as his golfer friends put it. You know it, of course. When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were. But denial is a pretty powerful thing. Now, at the tender of age of forty-six, he knew that no matter what he did, the slide would not only continue but accelerate. Cheerful thought. The

As they continued to wind through the crowd, a few women met Myron's gaze and held it, though not as many as one, two, five years ago. He felt like an aging pitcher who needed this particular radar gun to tell him that his fastball was losing velocity. Or maybe there was something else at work here.

They headed out the front door. Myron kept his eyes on the For Sale sign as though it might suddenly brandish a gun.

Do you need anything, Mr. Pierce?" the young associate asked him. She was a recent Stanford Law grad and gorgeous and chipper and full of life, and you wondered when life would beat it out of her. It always did in the end. That kind of enthusiasm wouldn't last.

People say college opens the world to you. In some ways, of course, that's true. But for the most part, it does the opposite. You come in thinking you can do anything when you leave. Your options are endless. Point of fact though, your options dwindle every day you're here. By the time you graduate, again, reality has splash-landed.

Gee, Cingle, that's pretty subtle." She spread her arms. "Subtlety ended for me the day I hit puberty.

Ali's daughter, Erin, was matriculating at Arizona State. Ali, Erin, and Jack were flying out for the week to get the freshman settled.

even in the flusher years in a country that no longer exists.

sunlight when Maya exited

My father has gotten old, an obvious observation alas, but we are often told how aging is a gradual process. Perhaps that's true, but in my father's case, it was more like a plummet off a cliff. For a long time, my father clung to that beautiful edge—healthy, strong, vibrant—but once he slipped, his descent was steep and sudden.

Strawweight, they have one power. In flyweight, they have totally different power. You can be the best one in the strawweight, but here, it's a totally different field. This is not someone who has less power than you. This is someone who has more power than you. This is where I feel this is my field; this is my territory.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

I was still in touch with Hef - and then we kind of lost contact.

I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too.

It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.

You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.