Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works.… — Warren Ellis 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 exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient… — Maria Montessori 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
An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do… — Andrew Davies 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
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
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious… — Anonymous 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
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore 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
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows… — Michael Gazzaniga 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
In every place you go, you still have to adapt to the atmosphere, adapt to the nature of it and understand the… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
