#tin

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#knowledge #writing #change

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#the-sandman #the-wake #change

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#change

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#couple #exciting #filled #get #hours

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form? ↗

— Tad Williams

#energy #perception #change

Tides do what tides do–they turn. ↗

— Derek Landy

#turning-tides #waiting #change

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#change

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful ↗

— Aimee Friedman

#beauty

[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#songwriting #writing #change

Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works. The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires. ↗

— Toba Beta

#desire #elder #enjoy-the-works #entrepreneur #opportunity