Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are looking for an alternate way to reach a modification.

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

James Truslow Adams

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Adam Johnson

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

Wal-Mart listens to consumers and will only alter its behavior if you alter your behavior. Customers are the ones who give Wal-Mart its power.

Wendy O. Williams

My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

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.

Siri Hustvedt

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Jackee Harry

I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.

Three dollars is the new two dollars. Before, the prevailing wisdom was that once it reached $2 a gallon, people would dramatically alter their behavior. ... But what we found is that it didn't turn out to be the case.

Travelers should consider using alternate routes or leave extra time in their schedules. Drivers are also urged to pay extra attention in the construction zone.

Year after year the property values keep rising and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight, despite the predictions. When you look at cities like Boston and Chicago, I would suspect that we're very much the same. It used to be considered the alternate lifestyle and now it's the preferred lifestyle. This niche market is no longer just a niche.

Damon Albarn

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

We needed to wait until The Narrows project was completed so residents could use either Highway 18 or Highway 38 as alternate routes.

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.

Withdrawing the LSIF program is a dangerous move, unless we have alternate sources of capital in place.

Without The Duck, asking a coach for a picture, you just feel like a goofy fan. But with The Duck it's OK. It's like an alter ego.

With invasive pest species, we can't turn back the clock, the lakes will be altered for good. Not only do invasive species unravel the food web they also fool public perception: The lakes look cleaner because the food has been stripped out.

We will likely see payback in February for the outsized January surge. It is unlikely that the combined data for the two months alter the robust trajectory.

We've overcome injuries before. I don't think it's going to alter anything we do.

Huston Smith

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Hilary Mantel

You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

Hilary Mantel

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.

Barry Ritholtz

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.