Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Groh

When you know the player is not going to be there, you make alternate plans and go on,

Madeleine Stowe

There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

We're trying to alternate so we each can be with him one day of the week.

This trail now has the potential to offer more than 25 percent of our staff an alternate path to and from the office.

We can't release too much information because it could alter what they need to tell us in the interviews.

James Laughlin

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

True, the fuel for faster recovery is amassing. But that prospect does not materially alter chances that inflation will also remain well anchored.

Harbhajan Singh

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

Lord Byron

Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim

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.

Shekhar Kapur

I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

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.

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.

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.

Chris Whitley

We must make improvements to the water system to meet the new arsenic standard. The problem is that the cost of (mitigating a) well is what it is, whether a system serves 10 customers or 1,000. That is why we developed the alternate proposal for the CPUC to consider, so that rates for customers in small systems aren't impacted so dramatically.

Chris Whitley

We must make improvements to the water system to meet the new arsenic standard, ... The problem is that the cost of (mitigating a) well is what it is, whether a system serves 10 customers or 1,000. That is why we developed the alternate proposal for the CPUC to consider, so that rates for customers in small systems aren't impacted so dramatically.

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.