Metamorphosis Quotes - Page 5

• I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

  David Cassidy

  Years, Numbers, Seventies

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• The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Real, Hair, Issues

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• What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

  Tom Waits

  Love You, Want, Pay

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

  Ben Gazzara

  Personality, Roles, Actors

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• In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Sight, Limits, Human Life

  "Beyond the Veil". Essay in "In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life", book by Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1910.

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• Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

  Joshua Ferris

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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• The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Light, Hammers

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 397), 1987.

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• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Fire, Lovely

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• The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

  Dennis Wilson

  Family, Dad, Kids

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• The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

  Salman Rushdie

  New York, Grandmother, Somewhere Else

  "Manhattan transfer". Interview with D.T. Max, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2000.

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• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  Calvin Trillin

  Food, Feet, Cooking

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rocks, Secret, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

  Roberto Bolano

  Pain, Mirrors, Voice

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• She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.

  Betty Neels

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Betty Neels (2012). “Roses Have Thorns”, p.48, Harlequin

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• Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Night, Journey, Wings

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• If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Thinking, Talking

  Franz Kafka, General Press (2016). “Metamorphosis”, p.8, GENERAL PRESS

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• The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

  Marina Warner

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• "Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Long, Wish

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

  George Steiner

  Mirrors, Looks, May

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.

  Tom Robbins

  Beach, Wine, Successful

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• All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of metamorphosis (panta Rhei).

  Viktor Schauberger

  Two, Flow, Eternal

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.15, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to "dress up like daddy.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, Smart, Race

  Robert Benchley (1946). “20,000 leagues under the sea: or, David Copperfield”

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• Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

  Nelly Sachs

  World, Homeland

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• At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, May, Study

  Entry for July 20, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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