Michael Frayn Quotes

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

It's a different world.

Things do not change; we change.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

Every hundred feet the world changes

I have to change to stay the same.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.