Quotes About Transformation

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.

I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still going to remain a mystery. I keep it as a mystery. So, maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I changed my last name.

The shaved head with which I returned to university in my second year was meant to give me a new air of mystery and menace. It did not.

You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it.

All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.

Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.

I was naive and ignorant. I'll never be like that again. But I can't go back. I've come out. I can't stick my head in the sand ever again.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

For a long time I didn't want to date or get naked with 'anyone - I was so fat. But I changed every part of my life to lose weight and have a better life.

My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an 'e' to Carol and acquire several more surnames.

I hope Hong Kong isn't just named Hong Kong but it can still be the Hong Kong we desire.

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

It is not accidental that it is love for a child that nearly transforms Ahab and does in the end transform Lear. It is only when the care of another, especially a child, becomes our primary concern that we can finally see and understand why we were created.

It began when we shifted, in the words of the historian Charles Maier, from an "empire of production" to an "empire of consumption." By the end of the Vietnam War, when the costs of the war ate away at Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and domestic oil production began its steady, inexorable decline, we saw our country transformed from one that primarily produced to one that primarily consumed. We started borrowing to maintain a lifestyle we could no longer afford.

We live in a system that is incapable of reforming itself. The first step to dismantling that system is to dismantle the ideas that give it legitimacy.

The right-wing Federalist Society, after its founding in 1982, unleashed a frontal assault on the legal system that has transformed it into a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate state.