Quotes About Evolution

I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but .........)

Sometimes the things that you liked the best and that have meant the most to you are the things that meant nothing at all to you when you first heard or saw them.

I think I'm gonna get me new Bob Dylan next week, get me a new Bob Dylan and use him. Here's the new Bob Dylan, see how long he lasts.

Something is happening but you don't know what it is.

And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is

Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were interchangeable parts.  We're not any more.  All those people between us and our readers (agents, editors, publishers, book reps, bookstores) are the ones whose jobs are in danger.

There is a tendency of one generation to run wild, break rules, enjoy itself, and then condemn those who come along next to give these indulgences a new spin.

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others. —Fernando Pessoa

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Nothing stays or holds or keeps where there is growth, he somehow perceived vaguely but truly. Great Caesar dead and turned to clay stopped no hole to keep the wind away. Dead Caesar was nothing but a tiresome bit of print in a book that schoolboys study for awhile and then forget. The Ambersons had passed, and the new people would pass, and the new people that came after them, and then the next new ones, and the next—and the next—

A tradition that doesn't have to be an imitation of something but a continuation, a branching out more than anything. One would have to conceive of tradition as something living, something that's continually changing and enriching itself through that change.

She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one's slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it's a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.

No one makes history, it is not visible, just as it is impossible to see grass grow.

Tomu nev??ím. To už není ten Chick, jaký býval dÃ…â"¢ív. - Ale je. Lidé se nemÄ›ní. VÄ›ci se mÄ›ní.

If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.

People chatted on cell phones and pecked away at keyboards. They had buds in their ears and listened to music or watched videos on their devices. Whatever happened to a cup of coffee and a newspaper? Hell, he thought, whatever happened to newspapers?

How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives?

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have.

The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been.

Tutti erano ammaliati dall'idea del progresso e credevano che qualsiasi cosa nuova dovesse essere superiore a ciò che era vecchio. Come se il merito fosse una funzione della cronologia!

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.

Perhaps in some remote area of the labyrinth, statues of obsolete computers are coming into being as we speak!