Quotes About Shift

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.

I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.