Alter

Famous quotes containing the word alter:

“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)