I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
“Altidiot: Definition – A sea level adapted human that works in a biologically toxic high altitude job.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me. — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything. — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to… — J. E. B. Stuart Copy Share Image
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps,… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines,… — Antonin Kratochvil Copy Share Image
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
No congressional reppers, no respectable rappers. It's the way we've adapted, don't forget I made it happen. — Wale Copy Share Image
In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted. — Philipp Lahm Copy Share Image
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar. — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
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