Quotes About Transformation

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.

Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

One day you're a college graduate, in love with Mr. Right and looking for a job. The next day, your Rambo.""Your timeline is off. And can we lose the Rambo part?

I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than that.

Her 'death' was the only way for her to live.

To read is to live inside a new world...

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.