Changeover Quotes & Sayings

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular. — Paul Strand

Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have. — Kate O'Mara

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying. — Tommy Wiseau

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me. — Gustav Krupp

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. — Stephen Gardiner

Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes. — William S. Burroughs

Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else. — J.H. Wyman

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. — Vanessa Mae

She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest darkness. Even a city that's broken and dirty can, in that time, be divine and intimate. — Jardine Libaire

At home, you'll sometimes wake up in your dark bed with the terror you've fallen asleep in the booth and missed a changeover. — Chuck Palahniuk

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't. — Liza Johnson

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. — Bryan Greenberg

When you get high on something - including "spiritual bliss" - there is always going to be a low. The comedown is your body / mind returning to balance, or the closest thing to balance that it knows. If you desperately crave bliss while your body / mind needs balance, you are bound to label the changeover as "feeling bad," when in fact it's the best thing that can happen.
Zen practice is not about getting high on anything and in so doing, getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss and nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss. — Brad Warner

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited. — Jon Crosby

There is only one reason that a man would take a nearly fatal knife wound for a woman,' Gavril stated.
'And what reason is that?' Blaze asked.
Gavril shrugged his shoulders and replied, 'Because he values her life more than his own. — Brittany Comeaux

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production. — Mao Zedong

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. — Bernard Malamud

And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days ... — Dylan Thomas

We see things the way we are, not the way they are. — Anais Nin

The changeover from one medium to another presents both opportunities and challenges. New technologies empower us, to be sure; but never without some cost which we universally fail to anticipate. We must avoid celebrating the advantages too enthusiastically, lest we miss the meaning of the challenges. For once the changeover is complete, the opportunities and challenges fully assimilated, we will certainly be impotent to undo them. — Peter K. Fallon