Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Moore

One of the problems is sometimes you spend too much time writing needless opinions that don't really alter anything one way or another.

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.

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.

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,

Pen-based computing has the potential to alter the way students and teachers interact.

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 initial conclusion was that, to date, those materials do not alter the conclusions reached by FDA about Prozac.

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.

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.

Martha Stewart

The experience of the last five months in Alderson, West Virginia, has been life altering and life affirming,

Donald Rumsfeld

What it doesn't do is shock and awe and alter the calculations of the people you're dealing with,

Ted Sarandos

What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

David Levithan

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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 were unable to take an alternate route. We deeply regret the inconvenience to our passengers and the delay.

John Howard

We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.

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

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.

Joanna Lumley

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

Greg Smith

We talk about it everyday. Whenever we get out of our guard play, we look to Derek and Rodney because they control what we do. It's not even about points. It's about controlling the boards, altering shots and all the things they do that you don't see in the stats. That's why we're successful.

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.

This will not alter Greenspan from his tightening course. As long as consumer demand remains healthy, he will be vigilant on the inflation front.

Jeff Greenfield

In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

Kerry Collins

We did have to alter our game plan a little bit, but not a whole lot. I think guys stepped up and played hard and did a good job.

It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.