Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.” — G.M. Malliet Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
After I saw 'Katha Parayumbol,' I agreed to do the Tamil adaptation of the film. — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my… — Diablo Cody 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
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
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to… — George R. R. Martin 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
“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
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 do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding… — Marc E. Platt Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted… — Bill McKibben 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 adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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