Quotes About Transformation

It was easy to leave what had become of my country. But hard to leave the country that it once had been.

The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it's like cotton—and like silk, too. Indeed, there's nothing lovelier.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.' That's from Emerson

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.' That's from Emerson, by the way. All I was hoping to do is stretch some goddamn minds.

Mockingbird sometimes found it hard to believe this was the same man she'd married; he looked like a different person now—as if someone had put a fire hose up his ass and inflated him with meringue.

Ellis dutifully opens the top half of the bisected lid... and there's Jimmy Stoma. All things considered, he looks pretty darn spiffy. Better, in fact, than he did on some of his album covers. He's so lean and fit, you wouldn't guess he once outweighed Meat Loaf.

Shad pointed to the book on the cocktail table. 'The guy in this story, he turns into a motherfucking centipede. Wakes up one morning and bingo! He's a bug. Sounds asinine, but it sure makes you think. People change overnight, they're not careful.

Poems that sustain our contemplation, disrupt our complacencies, and leave us changed" -Carl Phillips

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.

You've tapped yourself in some sort of fifth­century religious mania. Since then the Renaissance has happened, the Enlightenment has happened. Where've you been?

Broca was quoted as saying, "I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.

The past is a bucket of ashes

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you make me over again.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

A fire smokes the most when you start pouring water on it.

The girl who said 'no' — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.

Sometimes we sleep too long in the afternoon and when we wake we find things changed, Signora.