Quotes About Transformation

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of 'Dinnerladies,' I'd put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone.

I've had boyfriends I've dated whom I met as Courtney, but then dated as Shane. Courtney can certainly act as a glamorous stepping stone across the pond.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be antique real quick, like the Ink Spots. And then we were at Motown and you had the Rolling Stones, simple rock & roll became the new thing.

If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.