Denaturing Quotes & Sayings

To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life as one writes history or the epic (without denaturing the subject) is perhaps an absurdity. That's what I wonder sometimes. But perhaps it's also a grand undertaking and very original! — Gustave Flaubert

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard. — Lisa Gardner

Connect, connect. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. — Hill Harper

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies. — Greg Cox

In a way, simplifying your life for vagabonding is easier than it sounds. This is because travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don't believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly you live at home, you can't match the scaled-down minimalism that travel requires. — Rolf Potts

But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable. — Jane Austen

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now. — Peter Mayhew

It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things. — Michelle Yeoh

Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together. — Ann Brashares

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? — Wendell Berry

In any group of women who are all equally good-looking, the number of messages they get is highly correlated to the variance: from the pageant queens to the most homely women to the people right in between, the individuals who get the most affection will be the polarizing ones. — Christian Rudder

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are. — Steve Albini