Quotes About Transformation

While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

I found 'The Face Of Another' by Kobo Abe disappointing despite the excellent, gothic premise: a man who's terrible facial scarring leads him to create a perfect mask.

Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

I really like getting the person who is terrified of cooking into the kitchen and showing them that cooking can be both indulgent and fun.

For a long time I was terrified of dogs, but now I get so much pleasure from them.

My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

My view of Magneto is that he's the terrorist who might someday evolve into a statesman.

I know exactly when my life changed: when I looked into the face of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was 2:48 P. M. on April 15, 2013 - one minute before the most high profile terrorist event on United States soil since September 11th - and he was standing right beside me.