Quotes About Alteration

Coincidences change our understanding, change what we notice, change what excites us, and set us on the path to making a discovery. Coincidences can also change our actions. One way they do this is by giving us an idea of what we need to alter to break a pattern we don't like

At Lucas's request, ILM had altered the cantina confrontation between Han Solo and the bounty hunter Greedo—which had ended with Han gunning the hapless Greedo down—to instead show Greedo squeezing off a shot first, thus turning Han's previously aggressive blast into what Lucas saw as simply self-defense. Fans

Death, after all, had many shapes; everyone knew it: it was the way.

ultimately altered their ability to respond properly to stress for a lifetime.

Already there is a study that shows that when humans digest genetically modified foods, the artificially created genes transfer into and alter the character of the beneficial bacteria in the intestine

Si la ecología enloquece, es porque en efecto es una alteración de la alteración de las relaciones con el mundo.

There was a sharp 'phut', no louder than a bubble of air escaping from a tube of toothpaste. No other noise at all, and suddenly Le Chiffre had grown another eye, a third eye on a level with the other two, right where the thick nose started to jut out below the forehead. It was a small black eye, without eyelashes or eyebrows.

I do think that the desire to permanently alter your body is triggered by this easy access to Photoshop on your phone.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of atoms and electrons would have to be altered in order for this to be true. If we tried, the fundamental absurdity of the task would quickly become evident.

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

Literally it's the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don't want to share your hoogencogles with.

Owen thought that if Louis looked the way he had the last time he'd seen him, he might believe what he was saying, but this was a man who'd been charmed by Peveral Othman, who'd been altered by him.

He felt different now, as if a new personality had come to inhabit his body.

and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Every emotional state produces an alteration of consciousness which Janet called abaissement du niveau mental; that is to say there is a certain narrowing of consciousness and a corresponding strengthening of the unconscious which, particularly in the case-of strong affects, is noticeable even to the layman.

when the truth is not as dramatic as the rumour, it gets altered.

Finge went on. "There are some things, however, they must not know. Prime among them, of course, is the manner in which we alter Reality when necessary. The insecurity such knowledge would arouse would be most harmful. It is always necessary to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge and we have never been troubled with it.

trastocó la realidad y ya nada volvió a ser como antes.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The world is changing. I'm trying to adjust to it, just like everyone else.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.