Quotes About Evolution

Bill Burr, Freddy Soto, Joe Rogan, Tom Segura... those people influenced me a lot more than any of the older guys like Richard Pryor.

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.

Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.

A life can change in a single moment, and from there you simply move forward.

Every day something will happen, something new will come. And then, and then. She remembered this urgent push toward the next thing and the next.

The two of you are different now, calmer. There is still sex, occasionally, but is no longer a priority to seduce or be seduced by him.

I said, it's strange, each time I see you again. You look different. Altered. You're not like I remember. I have to get used to you.

The firsts go away–first love, first baby, first kiss. You have to create new ones.

A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight.

If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace.

The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else--a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention--no longer the static concept of failure.

I don't know myself as well as I used to .

Progress takes place in the dark, when you aren't trying.

Not every narrative is an arc. The universe, for example, just keeps expanding.

Once you've traveled far enough from where you began, it's impossible to reconcile the present with the past.

I made so many mistakes on purpose just to get them out of the way.

Old incompetence is incompetence still.

It has always fascinated me that we're prepared to end a romantic relationship that is no longer working but are generally reluctant to do the same with friendships. Not all friendships are meant to last for life. People evolve, and friendships evolve with them.

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.

We are ghosts of the people we used to be. -Dickensian, TV Series (2015– ), s01e17

I think the thing about gay people in that era was that we were not really especially caustic or campy, we just were so far ahead of the regular culture that we got bored very easily, and moved on to the next thing just to keep ourselves interested.

It's kind of like you go [forward], and it's still about you, but the picture keeps getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.