Quotes About Transformation

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You have to have a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way of thinking. It is a way of thinking. Not a restoration. Parties out. Citizens instead of parties.

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.

Sleeping hurt, everything hurt. But it's pretty cool what you can do to the body by working out.

Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.

I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.

When I was working at the Flamingo I took slides of people standing in front of the Flamingo with the highway behind them. Across the street you can see these tumbleweeds. That is now Caesars Palace.

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my hairline and continued the white makeup up so it made my head look slightly deformed. I thought it was hilarious.

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

I'm such a different person to the one I was at Radio 1... and I like to think that women are treated slightly differently to back then.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

When I got to Central Arkansas, I was a small, slim guy with little chance of playing in the NBA. Then, I went through a two-year growth spurt, and suddenly, I was 6-foot-7.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

My effort is to slip into any role that is offered to me. The minute you go into those costumes, those grand sets, and start prepping up for the role, you become the part or at least start feeling the part.

I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

My music wasn't accessible. I used to make music that was slow.

Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.