Quotes About Alteration

All is flux

Unlike other fields of medicine, Szasz claimed, psychiatry created new criteria for diagnosis of disease: alteration of bodily function instead of bodily form. Now doctors only need to observe behavior to diagnose, not find evidence of lesions or viruses. Therefore, in psychiatry, diseases are invented, not discovered

What alteration was ever fot the better? Change meant loss.

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

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.

To translate is to alter one's linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

Para que algo suceda, algún suceso tiene que modificarse o algo que hasta el momento estaba inmóvil tiene que moverse.

You would not have known,' Baynes said, 'because I do not in any physical way appear Jewish; I have had my nose altered, my large greasy pores made smaller, my skin chemically lightened, the shape of my skull changed. In short, physically I cannot be detected. ...

Possibly his experience with the bounty hunter Phil Resch had altered some minute synapsis in him, had closed one neurological switch and opened another. And this perhaps had started a chain reaction.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.

I'm short, and I always need to alter everything, and I alter a lot of what I wear.

My wife has changed my appearance a bit.

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.