The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they… — James Franco Copy Share Image
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
“The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“it is easy to recognize an evolutionary process at work that has molded the human form for better survival in an arctic… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“People are panicking about climate change in large part because the media and environmental campaigners tell us to, because politicians overhype the… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
When you're making an adaptation, you have to make content for the fans; otherwise, you'll get something that won't even be accepted… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable.… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
“There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township,… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
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