Alternate

Famous quotes containing the word alternate:

“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)

“I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)