“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re… — Kermit E. Heartsong Copy Share Image
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“I am, a spectator, so to speak of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair:… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being."… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“Werewolf change was never pleasant. That was one of the reasons pack members still referred to it as a curse, despite the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in. — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“Turning our lives around for the better is nothing less than a miracle. There is nothing more miraculous.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old… — Tom O'Connor Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Similar to a butterfly, I've gone through a metamorphosis, been released from my dark cocoon, embraced my wings, and soared!” — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role . — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
