Quotes and Sayings About Phases
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They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
-- Alanis Morissette -
You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.
-- Ally Carter -
The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.
-- Anatoliy Golitsyn -
Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.
-- Ashley Benson -
A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
-- Beth Gibbons -
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
-- C. S. Lewis -
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
-- Caio Fonseca -
The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.
-- Caroline Pratt -
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
-- Cassandra Wilson -
I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
-- Charles Frazier -
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe
-- Clifford D. Simak -
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
-- Dario Argento -
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.
-- David Guetta -
The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.
-- Dion Fortune -
I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
-- Ed Rendell -
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.
-- Edward Gorey -
Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.
-- Emmet Fox -
Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.
-- Eoin Colfer -
When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.
-- Eric Carr -
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.
-- Ernst Bacon -
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
-- Francisco Varela -
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
-- George H. Mead -
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets...
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
-- Haruki Murakami
