One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of… — Christopher Isherwood 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 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
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.' — Diana Gabaldon 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
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version? A: No official release of myself will ever follow! Q:… — Rossana Condoleo 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
There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
