Alter Quotes - page 2

If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it. (William S. Burroughs)
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature. View quote
Camille Paglia
Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts". View quote
Dean Koontz
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Energy and persistence alter all things. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. View quote
Jane Austen
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility. View quote
Thucydides
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. (H. G. Wells)
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. View quote
John W. Campbell
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indifference I invent a meaning I don't watch unmoved I intervene and say that this and this are wrong and I work to alter them and improve them The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes. View quote
Peter Weiss
They say music can alter moves and talk to you. Well can it load a gun up for you and cock it too WIll if it can and the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge it was my fault...and I'll get sued. View quote
Eminem
There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts-and the traditional persecution of men for their religion. ... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts, ... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences. View quote
Thomas Szasz
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. View quote
William Shakespeare
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature. View quote
Voltaire
Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language." (John Backus)
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. View quote
Josh Billings
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. View quote
Martha Beck
If you are unable to change many aspects of your work, you must alter your mindset – learning to stop thinking about your work as boring or dull; viewing the glass as half full rather than half empty; finding the positives in your daily work and career. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it. View quote
Philip K. Dick