Famous quotes containing the words alter and/or mann:
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)