My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre. — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“Thus counterinsurgency is at heart an adaptation battle: a struggle to rapidly develop and learn new techniques and apply them in a… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a… — Grace Abbott Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable.… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by… — Fred Singer Copy Share Image
It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world,… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key… — Craig Cecil Copy Share Image
![“It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really…” quote by Debra Messing](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8c8/debra-messing-8824_adaptation_it-going-from-mini-series-to-series-was_1818201.jpg)
