Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It has come to my realisation that everything is a matter of adaptation. — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
After I saw 'Katha Parayumbol,' I agreed to do the Tamil adaptation of the film. — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've… — Markus Zusak 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
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
The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is… — Andy Weir 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
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Something wasn’t right though. That golden rule of positive psychology, hedonic adaptation, states that no matter what tragedy or good fortune befalls… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what… — Akiva Goldsman 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
I've had stuff of mine adapted by other people, so I've come to the conclusion that a movie is a different form… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse 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
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