Johnny Colt Quotes

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Everything I do now is a first.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

That's probably the only thing I am afraid of: time.

Change is very scary.

I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.