Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
After I saw 'Katha Parayumbol,' I agreed to do the Tamil adaptation of the film. — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“By the time we are convinced of the climate change impacts; there would be nothing we could do to help.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out. — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make… — Squarepusher Copy Share Image
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Personal struggles, mistakes, and perseverance are part of every person’s life story. A proper mindset can turn failure into a gift. Specific… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image