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Quotes About Alteration

One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.
~ Sheri Reynolds
Underlying this apparent impasse is the perception that the alteration of things will be destructive for both partners: the speaker is "transfixed/by your eyes cold blue thumbtacks". But she also knows that "there is no joy" in the game, and that she wants "the circle/ broken", regardless of the cost.
~ Sherrill Grace
Thus 'falling in love' is no more than the process of alteration of male vision - through idealization, mystification, glorification - that renders void the woman's class inferiority.
~ Shulamith Firestone
I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
~ Sidney Sheldon
More than anything, the pictures had altered my vision of George. The graceful young man with long dark hair and beautiful manners had spawned a double, and it was this second man, the one I didn't know, who fascinated me.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The more things change, the more they stay different.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
he had grown; several buttons burst off. His
~ Beatrix Potter
und was lediglich eine saisonale Wampe gewesen war, war jetzt sein dauerhafter Ganzjahresbauch.
~ Bentley Little
His blood changed to falling snow.
~ Bernard Malamud
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
~ David Benioff
My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'
~ Anthony Bennett
The Sphere of Potentiality—i.e., the dimension above the Material Plane—recognizes the alteration in our hero. She has changed. She is not the same person she was, even ten seconds earlier. She has, by an act of will and love and daring, stepped out of the role of the passive and the self-paralyzed and into the role of the active protagonist, the hero. She has in fact become a hero, quaking knees notwithstanding. The universe comes to the hero's aid.
~ Steven Pressfield
The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries
~ Joshua Halberstam
Este hombre no ha sido siempre este hombre. Este hombre era otro hombre antes.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
When I stood up, my steps were uncertain, as though I were wearing lifts in my shoes. I could feel the air between the soles of my feet and the ground. It was like something important had altered, like gravity, or the air itself.
~ Judy Blundell
I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.
~ Julia Quinn
Have you anything that is ready to wear today? I'd like nothing better than to be rid of that thing she has on now. You can use her measurements to fashion a few more." "I have one or two I could quickly alter to her size. In fact there is one right there." She pointed to a pale yellow day dress draped over a dressmaker's model. Dunford was just about to say that it would do when he saw Henry's face. She was staring at the dress like a starving woman.
~ Julia Quinn
Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.
~ Max Scherzer
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Meyer himself was ready for a change. "Union Square Cafe was a great canvas, but I needed a new place to express my creativity," he said. "I didn't think I should alter a successful restaurant just because I was restless. I didn't have to get all of my ideas into one place.
~ Bo Burlingham
Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same." A
~ Haruki Murakami
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
~ J. C. Ryle
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
~ Babe Ruth