Adaptation Quotes · Page 4

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

— Max McKeown

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

— Sylvie Guillem

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

— Wesley Snipes

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

— Joanne Froggatt

“The best schedule is one that is adapting to change.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

— John Ruskin

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

— Pliny the Elder

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows…

— Michael Gazzaniga

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,

— Barry Eisler

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the…

— William Whewell

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost…

— Killian Scott

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would…

— Noah Baumbach

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

— Nicolas Cage

I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what…

— Kate Egan

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing…

— Anonymous

So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of…

— Joseph Fiennes

If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its…

— Brian Helgeland

Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who…

— Aleister Crowley

A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the…

— Georges St-Pierre

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also…

— Edward Einhorn

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how…

— Anne Michaels

“Our environment has changed so that the correlations we relied upon in the environment of evolutionary adaptation no longer obtain. This makes…

— Joseph Heath

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture,…

— Shepard Fairey

I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you…

— Marc E. Platt

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time,…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few…

— Mark Rippetoe

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

— Lauren Fleshman

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

— Frank Darabont

It's normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.

— Fred

“Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.”

— michael bassey johnson

Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.

— Barry Gardiner

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

— George Vaillant

'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

— Diana Gabaldon

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier