Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
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
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that… — Robert Sikoryak 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
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable.… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson 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
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
“it is easy to recognize an evolutionary process at work that has molded the human form for better survival in an arctic… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not… — Paulo Coelho 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
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. — David Benioff 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
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
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. — E. O. Wilson 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
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey 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
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
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
