Refreshing Change Quotes

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Novelty in all things is charming.

Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

To turn the radio on and hear so much more diversity, it's so refreshing. That voice that cuts through what you've been hearing, it's inspiring.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

I love getting away from the rink and being in school.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different.

Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment.

Once I did a film like 'Verna,' which was emotionally draining, I knew I needed to do something lighter and entertaining.

Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.

I did something that's a no-no in the music industry. I cut my hair. For years, my hair was my stamp. 'Oh, that's the long-haired guy from the Black Eyed Peas.' But when I did it, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

It's kind've a cliche but I like when it's raining. I like the feeling of staying in and not being told I should be outside.