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
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 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
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
Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
My 'awakened dreams' are about shifts. Thought shifts, reality shifts, gender shifts: one person metamorphoses into another in a world where people… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty;… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
