Diane Ackerman Quotes

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

Everything evolves, and I evolve, too.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.