Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

Virginia Postrel

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Nina Bawden

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

Bill Bryson

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

(The alternate settlement) is not really to the liking of many of us. But we're between a rock and a hard place.

The alternate airports have grown faster, making it necessary to open new ones.

That will be as alternate as it gets from us.

That way, people can get information before they get on the road and decide which route to take. People feel better in a delay if they know what caused that delay and what alternate routes are available.

John Sheridan

We have an alternate site we're looking at. The federal government likes to see that we have alternate sites in our filing. We do that in the event we don't go forward with the proposed route.

We could have altered the course of history ... and didn't. That's all life is, putting yourself in a position to be successful and grasping the moment when it's there. We had 'em on the ropes, but we weren't good enough to finish them. That's why they turned out to be national champions. Even though it was prelude to a bunch of close games to come for Ohio State, they learned something that day about themselves.

We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

Ryan Coogler

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.

Vaccines, if they can blunt that initial, enormous burst of virus production early on, even if it doesn't prevent initial infection, may dramatically alter the course of infection,

Robert Gottlieb

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

Peer Steinbruck

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

Paul Di Filippo

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.

Peter Jackson

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

David White

Whoever gets the first one will be decided on the toss of a coin. It's the fairest way to do it. You'd rather have three each, of course, but the other components are equally as important. It (the grand final) will alternate year on year.

Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?

We need to alter the wedding vow. Till death do us part - or until you become an inconvenience.

Zoe Lofgren

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

Jyoti Basu

The present government, it seems to me, is thinking that without America nothing can be done. What Nehru did, they are completely altering it.

We anticipate delays so travelers should consider using alternate routes or leave extra time in their schedules. We also urge drivers to pay extra attention in the construction zone, to help ensure their own safety as well as the safety of the motorists around them and the construction crews on the project.

Fred Couples

I was very mediocre. I put Tiger in some rough spots. My problems come out in alternate shot when you're playing with the best player in the world. I was outclassed by three guys.

Herbie Mann

I was too successful. I made too much money. Alternate fringe audiences liked me too much, so obviously that can't be important.

We can play alternate shot! We can play alternate shot!

Luis Fonsi

We're both on the same wavelength, in the sense that he's done other types of records ... a little different from what I do. That's what I wanted from him, to kind of take alternate routes in different songs.

We filled 5,200 of those 5,700 seats. The flow through, from a business standpoint, was terrific. And it demonstrated that our customers will move on to an alternate carrier.

Charles Tupper

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

We did not see anything in the second quarter results that would cause us to alter our full year 2005 stand-alone estimate for Federated of $4.58 per share,