All Quotes

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
‐‐ Jim Woodring

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
‐‐ Marcia Angell

Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here.
‐‐ Mikko Hypponen

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
‐‐ John Edward Redmond

Although 8.25 isn't very big, it's good to be the best of Europe again.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than taste, according to one study - crispness is more a matter of acoustics than of mouth feel.
‐‐ John Seabrook

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
‐‐ Delia Smith

Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
‐‐ Lou Diamond Phillips

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
‐‐ Kerry Thornley

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
‐‐ Ulysses S. Grant

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
‐‐ Paracelsus

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
‐‐ Kat Dennings

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.
‐‐ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.
‐‐ David M. Brown

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
‐‐ Chris Van Hollen

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
‐‐ Toni Braxton

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.
‐‐ Evan Davis

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
‐‐ George Whitefield

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
‐‐ Bob Kane

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat

Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
‐‐ Georg Solti

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
‐‐ Carl Clinton Van Doren

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
‐‐ Ed Markey

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
‐‐ Zhu Rongji

Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
‐‐ Benoit Mandelbrot

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor