#shifting

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#both #built #collapse #come #home

As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#annoying #because #gap #i #kid

What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#compliance #customers #enforce #help #intrusion

Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for many centuries past. One distinct change marks modern retellings, however, reflecting our changed relationship to animals and nature. In a society in which most of us will never encounter true danger in the woods, the big white bear who comes knocking at the door [in fairy tales] is not such a frightening prospective husband now; instead, he's exotic, almost appealing. Whereas once wilderness was threatening to civilization, now it's been tamed and cultivated; the dangers of the animal world have a nostalgic quality, removed as they are from our daily existence. This removal gives "the wild" a different kind of power; it's something we long for rather than fear. The shape-shifter, the were-creature, the stag-headed god from the heart of the woods--they come from a place we'd almost forgotten: the untracked forests of the past; the primeval forests of the mythic imagination; the forests of our childhood fantasies: untouched, unspoiled, limitless. Likewise, tales of Animal Brides and Bridegrooms are steeped in an ancient magic and yet powerfully relevant to our lives today. They remind us of the wild within us...and also within our lovers and spouses, the part of them we can never quite know. They represent the Others who live beside us--cat and mouse and coyote and owl--and the Others who live only in the dreams and nightmares of our imaginations. For thousands of years, their tales have emerged from the place where we draw the boundary lines between animals and human beings, the natural world and civilization, women and men, magic and illusion, fiction and the lives we live. ↗

— Terri Windling

#fairy-tales #fantasy #myth #shape-shifting #change

Support Imagination. Read a book. ↗

— Robbi Sommers Bryant

#psychological-suspense #shape-shifters #shapeshifting #suspense #urban-fantasy

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#characters #circumstances #imagine #interests #location

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#characters #circumstances #imagine #interests #location

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#believe #change #continuing #economic #economic forces

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. ↗

— Leontyne Price

#era #gears #know #leave #life

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. ↗

— David Friedman

#doing #growing #i #keep #keeps