Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

I would say I'm very sympathetic toward Gerald. He has exactly the same thing going on on his side. I'm every bit on pins and needles. I've got a lot of logistical things that would have to be altered (if the tournament got a March date).

James Frey

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the book.

Kathleen Blanco

Katrina and Rita altered the fabric of our society,

When he passed by me, he had some of the white rubbed over the plates as altered buyer's plates. I noticed he undid his seatbelt and saw he grabbed his pocket and lifted his foot.

If we can give patients exercises that are easily altered for home practice, they will be much more likely to continue therapy on their own and have success. Because mental practice can produce such powerful reactions in the body and the brain, we think stroke patients can benefit substantially from this exercise.

Ben Jonson

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered

We altered the rotations of units during the January election. And I think it's perfectly plausible to assume we'll do the same thing for this election,

We altered the rotation of units during the January elections, and I think its perfectly plausible we'll do the same thing for these elections.

We still see lower rates later in the year, but for now, with the economy growing at about trend and in a balanced manner, there are few reasons for policy to be altered in either direction.

Dustin Keller

With this being our first game (in the altered offense), I thought we did pretty well. We're going to get better and better throughout the season.

Therefore the Vilar Floral Hall will revert to being known as the Floral Hall. We will cease to use Mr. Vilars name on printed material and programs, and the signage in the public areas will be altered over the next few months in no particular order or time-scale.

We're not a good shooting team. They are so long, they altered a dozen shots (total).

Through land cover changes over the last 300 years, we may have already altered the climate more than would occur associated with the ... effect of a doubling of carbon dioxide,

Monica Crowley

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.

Tyrone Hayes

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

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.

Western juniper has rapidly expanded into neighboring plant communities over the past 130 years. It has caused increased soil erosion, reduced forage production, altered wildlife habitat, changed plant communities and their structure and biodiversity.

Theodore Zeldin

We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

People are now starting to believe the earnings base for the mining companies has altered and the medium-term earnings prospects aren't going to deteriorate, if anything, they may continue to improve.

Our work is the first proof-of-principle study to show that altered nuclear transfer not only works but is extremely efficient.

My son's life was put on the line. It's altered our life on a daily basis. It's 24-7, trying to recover. I don't want anyone else to go through this.

I think we should have moved significantly more schools, and altered the boundaries completely from what we have before us. I think those moves would have been a better long-term solution, and in the end there will be a penalty we shouldn't have imposed on ourselves, which would be having to do this again.

I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

The exhibition has been in process well over three or four years, and it has gone in as many directions as there were years, ... It is far less didactic and representational than the title would imply. It is far more experiential in dealing with visual phenomena, and that's really what connects it to Los Angeles. You will see a number of younger people in the exhibition who owe a significant debt to the experiments of the Light and Space artists in the late '60s. People don't write about it now, but at the time it was very much associated with altered states of consciousness, with drug culture, expanded time. In an odd way, it does come around.

Rick Cook

If trees go down, it's fine as long as the reason is a naturally caused one. Our real concern is altered water flow from upstream, and hurricanes don't change that one way or another.

Richard Phillips

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.